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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

Table 4 Expected time and cost savings for shippers if multi-modal transportation is used instead of
interrupted transport

Time Difference Freight Difference
No Transport model
(%) (%) (%) (%)
1 Disrupted, single- modal transport. 100 - 100 -
Road transport - sea transport - road
2 78 22 77 23
transport
Car transport - Inland waterway
3 85 15 70 30
transport - sea transport
4 Sea transport - railway transport 80 20 75 15

- The port managers are the ones to see the 3. Conclusion
benefits of this model, which is to reduce traffic Multimodal transport is not a new type of
congestion, reduce traffic accidents, and speed up transport in Vietnam but the implementation and
the delivery and receipt of goods at seaports by application of service providers is limited, due to
reducing the number of trips and go to Port. various reasons such as model building. suitable for
- Freight forwarding and logistics types of goods, areas, shippers' awareness,
companies can sell multimodal transport services for conditions required from documents and legal basis.
goods from abroad to Vietnam and vice versa. Using The article systematized the theoretical basis of
the traditional import-export model, logistics multimodal transport, the conditions for deploying
enterprises only sell freight for one mode of sea and launching multimodal transport models of
transport (from foreign ports to Vietnamese import and export goods by containers for cargo
seaports), and when they switch to the new import owners and transport enterprises examination The
and export model, they can sell freight more from proposed models, taking into account all possibilities
seaports to inland ports, even from inland ports to of implementation, hopefully in the future this
customer warehouses. advanced transport service will be popular not only
- From the perspective of manufacturing in northern Vietnam but also in many other areas. .
enterprises around the port area: If goods are Especially in the smooth coordination between
delivered inland, there will be two benefits: buyers and sellers to create a closed transport chain
In terms of costs, businesses will save from door to door.
transportation costs for the way of transporting
goods from business warehouses to border gates and 4. Acknowledgment
vice versa. Because the multimodal transport unit This research was supported by ATRANS
will transport a large lot of goods inland and deliver Young Researcher’s Forum 2019, grant number
it to shippers instead of each owner having to take it AYRF2019-013
to the port to receive or deliver the goods, saving
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