Promotion of Multimodal Transport in Chemical Logistics
The chemical industry is an important economic sector in Central Europe with 117 billion Euro turnover and 340.000 employees. The chemical companies are important logistic stakeholders responsible for 8% of freight transport. The industry has the objective to strengthen multimodal transport and modal shift from road to rail with strong focus on improvement of safety and security in combination with increased logistics efficiency. The optimisation of the supply chain is a crucial for long-term competitiveness.

The main objective of ChemMultimodal is the promotion of multimodal transport of chemical goods by coordination and facilitation of cooperation between chemical companies, specialised logistics service providers (LSP), terminal operators and public authorities in chemical regions in CE.

Based on a detailed analysis of the needs for improving multimodal transport of chemical goods, the project will develop a toolbox to support chemical companies and LSP in their strategic and operational planning for increasing the share of multimodal transport. This toolbox will be tested in 7 pilots with 35 chemical companies in the partner countries to facilitate real modal shift. In these pilots it is the objective to increase multimodal transport by 10% and reduce CO2 footprint by 5% until the end of project duration.  1 Common Strategy and 7 Regional/National Action Plans will be developed to continue and intensify activities after the project end.

The new quality of cooperation between private and public entities with support of a dedicated tool is innovative and will improve coordination of multimodal stakeholders across boarders in CE and contribute directly to modal shift. An intensive collaboration with European Chemical Regions Network and European Chemical Industry Council will ensure mainstreaming at EU level.