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Environmental and energy investigation of cargo transfer in the Mediterranean Sea: short sea shipping - road transport - air transport

Chatzigogos Dimitrios

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This paper examines the freight sector in the Mediterranean countries. Even though freight transport has a significant role in the efficient movement of goods and economic development, at the same time negative effects are caused to theenvironment by greenhouse gas emissions and other factors that lead to environmental degradation.Modern economies are continuously searching for innovative ways to reduce suchenvironmental impacts. Depending on the level of the development of each country, a similar path and implementation of "green" policies on freight transport is followed.The Mediterranean countries have a long way to go towards this result.The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the factors that affect theenvironmental and energy repercussions of cargo transport by sea, land or air. The analysis is based on the calculation for each mode of transport (ship - airplane - train – track/lorry) and on the comparison of energy consumption and air emissions to the atmosphere (e.g. carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides) on selected routes in Mediterranean. The study was performed utilizing the EcotransIT World software tool.

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