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Mainly on the Elbe River - Central Europe

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hand, if <strong>the</strong> navigability c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s were ensured at all times, <strong>the</strong> waterway transport would gain<br />

advantage over railway transport and would be able to compete (for certain commodities) with road<br />

transport. It can be deduced that <strong>the</strong> speed and fluency of loading, overloading and unloading are<br />

more important than <strong>the</strong>ir price.<br />

It would be false to assume that <strong>the</strong> customer decides exclusively based <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> price offered by<br />

transporters. Customer actually evaluates <strong>the</strong> total ec<strong>on</strong>omic expenses including <strong>the</strong> “n<strong>on</strong>-<br />

transport” costs. If we accept this fact, <strong>the</strong>n we easily understand popularity of road transport<br />

despite its highest all-in costs.<br />

The competitiveness of waterway and railway transport does not <strong>on</strong>ly c<strong>on</strong>cern price, but also<br />

reliability of transportati<strong>on</strong>. Higher reliability and lower price are <strong>the</strong> comparative advantages of<br />

waterway transport, which are degraded by unreliable navigati<strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elbe</strong> river<br />

between Střekov and Dolní Žleb.<br />

The availability to use a transport mode with <strong>the</strong> most comparative advantages obviously<br />

improves <strong>the</strong> positi<strong>on</strong> of chemical industry producers. Use of comparative advantages of various<br />

transport modes <strong>the</strong>refore becomes a comparative advantage for producers.<br />

A feasibility study for “Improvement of C<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s for <strong>the</strong> <strong>River</strong> Transport in <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> (mainly <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elbe</strong><br />

<strong>River</strong>)“ realized within <strong>the</strong> ChemLog project 137

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