Abstract
<p>As coastal production costs in many countries, producers are moving inland to remain competitive with other<br />countries. Also, container transport volumes continue to grow, the sea flow generates almost proportional inland<br />flow; the links with hinterland will become critical factors for the seaports functionality. Development of dry<br />ports is an important part of intermodal transport which play an important role in improving hinterlands.<br />Successful implementation dry port depends on identification and description of required capabilities to develop<br />advanced intermediate terminal, discover existing deficiency in these capabilities and their effects of each other.<br />This article fill the gaps of implementation of dry ports by offering a conceptual model. To do so, this current<br />study is done in a complicated process in five stages of: review of literature, Delphi, Gap analysis, fuzzy<br />Dematel and Structural equation modeling (SEM). 17 indexes of Delphi model were extracted and classified in 8<br />groups. The identified gap and causal relations enabled presentation of a model which was tested and verified by<br />Partial Least Squares (PLS).</p>
Highlights
Existing problems in transportation network traffic in the world has led to many countries make use of intermodal transport, such as dry ports, which has a significant role in improvement and development of status of goods transportation, especially Container products
The dry port concept is based on a seaport directly connected by rail with inland intermodal terminals where containers can be dealt with in the same way as if they were in a seaport
While it may mean that dry port are more relevant to developing economic period or in prosperous periods than recession period, but developing the capacity is not the only reason of implication of dry port (Bergqvist and Wilmsmeier, 2011).the findings showed that dry port concept can help to identify some other ways for transporting high volume of load that are more efficient and less harmful for the environment, they can reduce population in port cities and develop logistic solution for shipping companies in the country (Roso, Woxenius and Lumsden, 2009)
Summary
Existing problems in transportation network traffic in the world has led to many countries make use of intermodal transport, such as dry ports, which has a significant role in improvement and development of status of goods transportation, especially Container products. Intermodal transport with dry ports could be a potential solution for seaport terminal congestion as well as for better seaport inland access that might be based on short haul rail. Improvement of container performance of Shahid-Rajaei as the greatest container port in the country, which was more than 2 million TEU and its rank was 67. Recent growth of this port and its estimated trend (such as physical improvement of terminal container port) led to increase of internal container transportation operation. In contrast to the development, the containers stop more than standard time in this port (27 compared to 3 to 5 days of international standard).
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