The road traffic share in Europe--with various degrees depending on the country--is dramatically increasing, with numerous negative impacts on the environment and the quality of life leading to the need to reduce external (social) cost derived from the transport activity. Transport policy developments envisage the encouragement of Intermodality aiming to minimize environmental impacts by realizing a shift from road to intermodal transport. This key policy target consists in creating favorable conditions for decision-makers to change their transport chain structure and convert from door-to-door road to door-to-door intermodal chains. Short Sea Shipping (SSS) is one of the pillars of intermodal transport, the other being railroad transport chains and, in terms of external costs, contributes to European Union (EU) Transport policy targets. However, within Europe the SSS activity does not seem to achieve an appropriate level of recognition or market share in the overall transport networ...
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