Funding Year: 2009
Funding Scheme: Large - scale integrating project
Project Duration: 36 months
Total Project Value: €13.1m
EU Grant-Aid: €8.4m
Grant-Aid to Ireland: €631,588
Lead Partner: BMT Group Ltd, Uk
Irish Partner(s):
- Nautical Enterprises Centre
- Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Port of Cork
Website: http://www.efreightproject.eu/ (Opens in new window)
Project Description:
The E-Freight project will facilitate the use of different transport modes on their own and in combination to obtain an optimal and sustainable utilisation of European resources. With the help of e-Freight:
- Transport users (shippers, freight forwarders, etc) will be able to identify and use direct or combined transport services most suited for their purpose.
- Transport service providers in all modes will provide information about their service offerings and exchange information electronically with all relevant actors through planning, executing and completing transport operations.
- Transport infrastructure providers will be able to facilitate the best possible use of the complete transport infrastructure and support transport users by providing relevant information about the available transport infrastructure and how to use it.
- Transport administrations will be able to obtain in the simplest possible way the required information for monitoring compliance with applicable regulations, and to exchange information with other authorities for collaboration in security and environmental risk management.Download further information on the FP7 E-freight project (Pdf 45k).
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