CIT-IRU Seminar
Bern, 5 September 2013
MULTIMODAL
TRANSPORTATION
Haşmet KARASU
M. Sc. Civil Engineer
KARMER-International Transport & Contraction
& Foreing Trade Co. Ltd.
TOBB-Tir Committee Member
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TOBB-The Union of Chambers and
Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
It is the union that contains 365 chambers
and commodity exchanges,
 With the membership of totally to 1.4
million companies.
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What is TOBB?
TOBB is a confederation of all local
chambers of commerce, industry and
maritime as well as commodity
exchanges in Turkey.
 It’s Turkey’s highest legal entity
representing the private sector.
 It was founded in 1950.
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Our country became a contracting
party to the TIR Convention in 1966.
 As of that date, our union assigned as
"Authorized to issue TIR Carnets" and
being a "guaranteeing association" by the
Council of Ministers.
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In last 5 years TOBB is considering as the
biggest TIR carnets distributed
company.
 In 2012 : TOBB issued 660.000 TIR
Carnets and those 20% of TIR Carnets
distributed.
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In 2012: Turkish TIR holders delivered
goods to 47 countries with 370.000 TIR
Carnets.
 In 2102: Foreign TIR holders from 47
countries delivered goods to Turkey with
160.000 TIR Carnets.
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Current
Balo
TCDD
System
System
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BALOTCDD
System
Current
System
Manisa––Kapikule
Kapikule11
2 Days
Manisa
Days
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Our Routes
Block trains’
destination points
Mo i Rama
Lulea
Trondheim
Umea
Oslo
Katrineholm
Klaipeda
Belfast
Helsingborg
Vilnius
Minsk
Dublin
Amsterdam
London
Rotterdam
Warsaw
Berlin
Köln
Brussel
Korosten
Kiev
Praha
Frankfurt
Nürnberg
Odessa
Stuttgart
Bern
Munich
Wien
Samsun
Istanbul
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Our Routes
The products coming from Europe and pass Turkey in transit,
are transported to the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula
through the Hedjaz railway as well as transported to Far East
through the Silk Road and Spice Route.
Klaipeda
Belfast
Helsingborg
Vilnius
Minsk
Dublin
London
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Brussel
Warsaw
Berlin
Korosten
Kiev
Köln
Praha
Frankfurt
Nürnberg
Odessa
Stuttgart
Bern
Munich
Wien
Samsun
Istanbul
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Titles
The Advantages of Using Multimodal
Transportation System
 The Environmental Impacts
 Reliable Examples and the Facts
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Advantages
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Time: Using the facilities of the other
modes of transportation in carriage of
freight by shortening the time for
providing the premium service to the
consignee.
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Economic: The different pricing system
on the basis of the various types of goods,
therefore the lower price and more
economical options according to the
different values.
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The equipment flexibility gives more
suitible selection to the customers for the
cargo with the examples of 20’, 40’, 45’
containers and mega semi-trailers and
high cube containers.
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Another point is; the less determining
factor of the coast of fuel substains more
stable usage for the multimodel
transportation.
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Traffic: The traffic accidents stands out
with increasing factor in our daily life.
Likewise the importance of these
accidents, the other vehicle attain to the
accident court to help (ambulance, police
etc.), so it creates a traffic jam.
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The multimodal transportation system
has a big effect to the decreasing of the
traffic accidents, the traffic jam,
noise pollution.
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The World Health Organization specified
the dangers of the noise pollution to
human's health in 2007. The European
Environment Agency’s report contains a
population of more than 250.000 of
people, 162 cities, 82.000 highways
around the towns, 12.000 km railways and
74 commercial airports.
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The proposal is; the noise pollution
should be limited with 40 dB level in night
times. In addition, 55 dB level and more is
considerably not healthy for human.
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The researches show the population in
Europe that has to live with the noise
pollution over 55 dB level during the day
and over 50 dB level during the night.
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The Environmental Impact
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It’s an environmentally sustainable system
that the multimodal transportation option
provides the ecological sensitiveness due
to reduced fuel usage, and so CO2
(carbondioxide) emission.
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For this environmental anticipating
increase of the fossil fuels, multimodel
transportation is beign proactively
encouraged by the European Union.
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Reliable Examples
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One of the benefit of the rail trasportation
is to be punctual, because the arrival and
departure times are determined before,
so the delays or the congestions are not
common.
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The percentages indicate the lower risk
of damages when using the transportation
by sea or rail, additionnaly the fewer
transit points.
 Besides, the railway terminals and
warbors must agree with strigent
international safety requirements.
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An example of using multimodel
transportation and generate the
environmental impacts;
5000 km of road,
1600 liters of fuel,
5520 kg of CO2 from Turkey to the port
of Trieste in Italy by Ro-Ro, and from
there to Worns in Germany by block
trains. This system manages to reduce
the distance from 7000km-2000 km.
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A Comparison
Weight: 100 Tons
Transport Chain Truck
Origin: Izmir
Class: 24-40 t, EURO-V
LF: 60.0%
ETF: 20.0%
Destination: Trieste
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Weight: 100 Tons
Transport Chain Truck
Origin: Izmir
Class: 24-40 t, EURO-V
LF: 60.0%
ETF: 20.0%
Destination: Trieste
Transport Chain Sea ship
Origin: Izmir
Class: Dry
Type: BC Intra-continental (<35k dwt)
Speed: 96.0%
LF: 57.0%
Destination: Trieste
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Weight: 100 tons
Transport Chain Truck
Origin: Izmir
Class: 24-40 t, EURO-V
LF: 60.0%
ETF: 20.0%
Destination: Trieste
Transport Chain Train
Origin: Izmir
Weight: 1000t
Class: electrified
LF: 60.0%
ETF: 50.0%
Destination: Trieste
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