Proceedings of ICLT 2015
AN ASSESSMENT OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT CORRIDORS: EUROPE – IRAQ
Ziad al Hashimi; Anthony Beresford; Stephen Pettit
Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2015, Lyon, France, pp. 17-24
Paper overview
The United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) was established in July 1976 by six countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E). The main mission of this line is providing shipping services to the Arabian Gulf region and the Middle East by linking this area with international ports and expanding into global trades (Dean, 2004). Currently, UASC is one of the largest shipping lines for containers to the Middle East. UASC intends to strengthen and expand its services and lifting to Iraq to achieve early entry to the Iraqi market, which is expected to have significant potential in terms of transported cargoes, either to the domestic market or for the governmental and project sectors. The key aim of this paper is to explore and evaluate the various multimodal transport corridors currently being used from Europe to Iraq for the import of general merchandise, consumer goods and rebuilding materials. The research is based on UASC containers' lifting and services to Iraq in recent years. The transport network could be defined as a combination of transport routes, including railways, shipping routes, highways and inland waterways, which link different nodes along the transport chain, such as rail terminals, sea and airports. Each transport node enables the transported cargoes to be switched to another mode according to an agreement between shippers and consignees.
Keywords
logistics; transport; supply chain
Citation
Ziad al Hashimi; Anthony Beresford; Stephen Pettit (2015). AN ASSESSMENT OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT CORRIDORS: EUROPE – IRAQ. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2015), Lyon, France, pp. 17-24.