{"id":8241,"date":"2011-06-08T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/06\/08\/white-paper-is-short-of-short-ambition\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:40:39","slug":"white-paper-is-short-of-short-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/white-paper-is-short-of-short-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"White paper is short of short ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Roadmap 2050 has, despite the Commission\u2019s ambitions to both increase mobility and reduce emissions, let down a large part of the inland port sector in its assumption that \u201cfreight shipments over short and medium distances (below 300 km) will to a considerable extent remain on trucks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis statement\u201d says Ms Ryckbost, \u201ceven ignores the current reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She points to the modal split in the smaller EU Member States and, she says, you don\u2019t have to look far to see the fast developing links between the big seaports and the inland ports. \u201cIt is thus clear that other factors are far more decisive for choosing other transport modes: type of product, volumes, infrastructure and transhipment facilities available, to name some.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she adds that there are many other interesting ideas in the paper and says it wouldn\u2019t be fair to reduce the issues to the one of the 300 km threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some far reaching and interesting plans, the recent EU Transport White Paper \u201clacks ambition\u201d on the issue of short and medium distance freight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}