This article analyses how information and communication technology (ICT) is used to support the hinterland transport of maritime containers. It focuses on the way information is conveyed between actors using an ICT facility structure, and how integrative information is used by different...

<title>Abstract</title> The negative impacts of transport are in general associated with costs. These costs are usually denoted as ‘external costs’ or ‘externalities’. This paper presents a tool for calculating external costs for freight transport together with its application to a number of case...

The goal of this study is to evaluate the life cycle performance of two alternative pathways to biofuels in the shipping industry: the ‘diesel route’ and the ‘gas route’. The diesel route comprises of a shift from heavy fuel oil to marine gas oil and then a gradual shift to biodiesel,...