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MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION

Haşmet KARASUM. Sc. Civil Engineer

KARMER-International Transport & Contraction & Foreing Trade Co. Ltd.

TOBB-Tir Committee Member

CIT-IRU Seminar

Bern, 5 September 2013

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TOBB-The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

It is the union that contains 365 chambers and commodity exchanges,

With the membership of totally to 1.4 million companies.

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What is TOBB?

TOBB is a confederation of all local chambers of commerce, industry and maritime as well as commodity exchanges in Turkey.

It’s Turkey’s highest legal entity representing the private sector.

It was founded in 1950.

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Our country became a contracting party to the TIR Convention in 1966.

As of that date, our union assigned as "Authorized to issue TIR Carnets" and being a "guaranteeing association"  by the Council of Ministers.

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In last 5 years TOBB is considering as the biggest TIR carnets distributed company.

In 2012 : TOBB issued 660.000 TIR Carnets and those 20% of TIR Carnets distributed.

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In 2012: Turkish TIR holders delivered goods to 47 countries with 370.000 TIR Carnets.

In 2102: Foreign TIR holders from 47 countries delivered goods to Turkey with 160.000 TIR Carnets.

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Current TCDD SystemCurrent TCDD SystemBalo SystemBalo System

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Current TCDD Current TCDD SystemSystemBALO SystemBALO System

Manisa – Kapikule 11 DaysManisa – Kapikule 2 Days

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Helsingborg

Katrineholm

Istanbul

Trondheim

Mo i Rama Lulea

Umea

MunichMunich

Warsaw

Dublin

Belfast

Oslo

KölnKölnRotterdam

Odessa

KlaipedaVilnius

Minsk

KorostenKiev

Samsun

Praha

BernWien

NürnbergStuttgart

BerlinLondon

Brussel

Amsterdam

Frankfurt

Our RoutesBlock trains’destination points

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Helsingborg

Istanbul

Munich

Warsaw

Dublin

Belfast

RotterdamRotterdam

Odessa

KlaipedaVilnius

Minsk

KorostenKiev

Samsun

Praha

BernWien

NürnbergStuttgart

BerlinLondon

Brussel

Amsterdam

Frankfurt

The products coming from Europe and pass Turkey in transit, are transported to the Middle East and Arabian

Peninsula through the Hedjaz railway as well as transported to Far East through the Silk Road and Spice

Route.

Köln

Our Routes

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The Advantages of Using Multimodal Transportation System

The Environmental Impacts Reliable Examples and the Facts

Titles

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Advantages

Time: Using the facilities of the other modes of transportation in carriage of freight by shortening the time for providing the premium service to the consignee.

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Economic: The different pricing system on the basis of the various types of goods, therefore the lower price and more economical options according to the different values.

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The equipment flexibility gives more suitible selection to the customers for the cargo with the examples of 20’, 40’, 45’ containers and mega semi-trailers and high cube containers.

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Another point is; the less determining factor of the coast of fuel substains more stable usage for the multimodel transportation.

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Traffic: The traffic accidents stands out with increasing factor in our daily life. Likewise the importance of these accidents, the other vehicle attain to the accident court to help (ambulance, police etc.), so it creates a traffic jam.

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The multimodal transportation system has a big effect to the decreasing of the traffic accidents, the traffic jam, noise pollution.

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The World Health Organization specified the dangers of the noise pollution to human's health in 2007. The European Environment Agency’s report contains a population of more than 250.000 of people, 162 cities, 82.000 highways around the towns, 12.000 km railways and 74 commercial airports.

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The proposal is; the noise pollution should be limited with 40 dB level in night times. In addition, 55 dB level and more is considerably not healthy for human.

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The researches show the population in Europe that has to live with the noise pollution over 55 dB level during the day and over 50 dB level during the night.

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The Environmental Impact

It’s an environmentally sustainable system that the multimodal transportation option provides the ecological sensitiveness due to reduced fuel usage, and so CO2 (carbondioxide) emission.

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For this environmental anticipating increase of the fossil fuels, multimodel transportation is beign proactively encouraged by the European Union.

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Reliable Examples

One of the benefit of the rail trasportation is to be punctual, because the arrival and departure times are determined before, so the delays or the congestions are not common.

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The percentages indicate the lower risk of damages when using the transportation by sea or rail, additionnaly the fewer transit points.

Besides, the railway terminals and warbors must agree with strigent international safety requirements.

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An example of using multimodel transportation and generate the environmental impacts;

5000 km of road, 1600 liters of fuel, 5520 kg of CO2 from Turkey to the port of Trieste in Italy by Ro-Ro, and from there to Worns in Germany by block trains. This system manages to reduce the distance from 7000km-2000 km.

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A Comparison

Weight: 100 TonsTransport Chain TruckOrigin: IzmirClass: 24-40 t, EURO-VLF: 60.0%ETF: 20.0%Destination: Trieste

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Weight: 100 TonsTransport Chain TruckOrigin: IzmirClass: 24-40 t, EURO-VLF: 60.0%ETF: 20.0%Destination: Trieste

Transport Chain Sea shipOrigin: IzmirClass: DryType: BC Intra-continental (<35k dwt)Speed: 96.0%LF: 57.0%Destination: Trieste

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Weight: 100 tonsTransport Chain TruckOrigin: IzmirClass: 24-40 t, EURO-VLF: 60.0%ETF: 20.0%Destination: Trieste

Transport Chain TrainOrigin: Izmir Weight: 1000tClass: electrifiedLF: 60.0%ETF: 50.0%Destination: Trieste

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