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LOGCHAIN+: Promoting Research and Development in International Freight Logistics Technologies

 

LOGCHAIN+ is a Europe-wide network for promoting research and development in the field of international freight logistics technologies. It was launched in 2006 and is the successor of the EUREKA Umbrella LOGCHAIN.

As a platform for launching new cooperative research projects at international level, the Umbrella LOGCHAIN+ has the objective of improving international freight transport within Europe through the development and optimization of continuous logistic chains between shipper and receiver. Particularly important fields of activity of LOGCHAIN+ are:

 

  • customised freight services
  • fully interoperable infrastructure
  • modular interoperable rolling stock
  • impact and sustainability
  • short sea shipping
  • transalpine freight

The overriding political objective of LOGCHAIN+ is to shift freight traffic from Europe’s roads and highways to rail and waterways by optimising the interfaces between different forms of transportation.

 

Duration: 2006 - 2011