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The Dryport research network managed to get in more than 30 abstracts after the successful conference in Edinburgh.
Kevin Cullinane (TRI Napier), Rickard Bergquist (Gothenburg University) and Gordon Wilmsmeier (CEPAL) were the editors behind the publications below.

'The Dry port concept - theory and practice' Special issue 14/1 March 2012, Maritime Economics and Logistics

'Dry ports - a global perspective' , January 2012 Transport and Society

'Intermodal Strategies for Integrating Ports and Hinterlands' volume 33/issue 1 Research in Transportation Economics

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Publications Dryport partners

IAW Institute Bremen

Full version of the report 'Governance and conflict resolution'

The executive summary of 'Governance and conflict resolution in Dryport planning'

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Scottish freight studies

Easiest access to all available material: link to SEStran and link to TRI Napier

SEStran published an extensive report on their Dryport years. Reads here.

SEStran 's study on the potentials of Coatbridge as the Scottish Dryport opens here for reading.

TRI Napier shows in this summary what has been achieved within Dryport

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Babergh District Council

Traffic Commissioners

Freight Transport Association

A Guide to Planning and Logistics

The three organisations have combined to produce a new Guide to help Planners and Logistics Operators understand the regulatory controls and pressures that operate within the Logistics industry. The promotion of mutual understanding of the Planning and Traffic Commissioners Licensing systems should bring benefits to this key area of the national economy.

press release 1

press release 2

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The Swedish pilot project Skaraborgs logictic center was supported by Region Västra Götaland, Swedish Transport Administration and Port of Göteborg. The researchers from Handelshögskolan and Chalmers added valuable research to the development of this practical example of a Dryport.

The process behing this cooperation is decribed in this report.

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Research links

Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh

Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg

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Dryport logo

The logo can still be used.

Dryport - a modal shift in practice