Intermodal transportation is defined as follows in this questionnaire: Freight is being transported in load-units from consignor to consignee. Contents of load-units must stay untouched during the shipping. At least two different transport modes (e.g. road, rail, sea and air) are deployed during the transportation. Therefore, one or more transshipments take place between consignor and consignee.
Please use the answering code mentioned in the e-mail in the beginning of the questionnaire.
Questionnaire
Answering code (mandatory):
Name of the company:
1. Number of employees
1 - 5 employees
6 - 10 employees
11 - 20 employees
21 - 30 employees
31 - 50 employees
51 - 100 employees
over 100 employees
2. Turnover of the company
0 - 10 000 euros
10 001 - 50 000 euros
50 001 - 100 000 euros
100 001 - 200 000 euros
200 001 - 500 000 euros
500 001 - 1 000 000 euros
over 1 000 000 euros
3. Estimate of your company's modal share between air, road, rail and sea transport in year 2009 and in the future:
2009
2015
2020
Air transport
%
%
%
Road transport
%
%
%
Rail transport
%
%
%
Sea transport
%
%
%
Overall
100 %
100 %
100 %
4. Estimate of the total container traffic (in TEU) in your company in year 2009 and in the near future:
2009
2012
2015
0 - 100 TEU
0 - 100 TEU
0 - 100 TEU
101 - 200 TEU
101 - 200 TEU
101 - 200 TEU
201 - 500 TEU
201 - 500 TEU
201 - 500 TEU
501 - 1 000 TEU
501 - 1 000 TEU
501 - 1 000 TEU
1 001 - 2 000 TEU
1 001 - 2 000 TEU
1 001 - 2 000 TEU
2 001 - 5 000 TEU
2 001 - 5,000 TEU
2 001 - 5 000 TEU
5 001 - 10 000 TEU
5 001 - 10 000 TEU
5 001 - 10 000 TEU
over 10 000 TEU
over 10 000 TEU
over 10 000 TEU
5. Your company's main product categories are...
Yes
No
General cargo
Bulk (dry)
Bulk (liquid)
6. Does your company operate in...
Yes
No
Domestic transports
International transports
7. Dry port concept
In dry port concept freight traffic between seaport and dry port (an inland intermodal terminal) is accomplished by rail. The Figure below illustrates the difference in traditional road transport and transportation that uses dry port concept. The upper part of the Figure illustrates traditional transport, where most transport from and to seaport is performed by road transport. The lower part of the Figure illustrates transport that uses dry port concept. There are three different dry ports implemented in the lower part. Transportation between dry ports and seaport is done by rail transport.
Source: Roso, V. (2009), “Emergence and significance of dry ports – The case of the Port of Göteborg”, World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 296-310.
What kind of advantages and/or disadvantages do you see in the dry port concept illustrated in the Figure above?
Intermodal transport:
Please rate following statements on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 = "Strongly disagree" and 7 = "Strongly agree".
8. Large part of your company's business is based on transit traffic.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
9. Your company uses intermodal transport in Finland.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
10. Your company uses intermodal transport abroad.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
11. Intermodal transport is more common abroad (e.g. in the center of Europe or USA) than in Finland.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
12. Share of rail transport will increase in comparison to other modes in the next 10 years.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
13. Share of road transport will increase in comparison to other modes in the next 10 years.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
14. Changes in Russian customs clearence legislations will increase the use of intermodal transportation in the near future.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
15. Your company has plans to increase the use of intermodal transport.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
16. Your company has expanded or has planned to expand into railway business.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
17. Intermodal transportation is more complicated to organize than conventional road transport.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
18. Intermodal transportation is more expensive mode than conventional road transport.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
19. It is rational to use intermodal transportation with transit traffic.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
20. Your company has plans to expand (e.g. warehousing area).
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
21. It is more expensive to expand in or near seaport area than far from the seaport.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
22. Your company has concentrated on using only one seaport. (Don't anwer to this question, if your company does not use seaports.)
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Green values:
Please rate following statements on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 = "Strongly disagree" and 7 = "Strongly agree".
23. Your company appreciates green values (e.g. company focuses in decreasing carbon dioxide emissions).
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
24. Your company has done calculations concerning its external costs (e.g. carbon dioxide emissions, carbon print or accident costs).
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
25. Green values have affected in your company's strategies (e.g. in use of environmentally friendlier transport modes).
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
26. Different taxes concerning environment (e.g. carbon dioxine emission taxing) will affect your company's strategies in the future.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
27. Intermodal transport is environmentally friendlier mode than conventional road transport.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
28. Green values are important to customers.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Information management
29. What kind of IT technologies does your company use for information flows:
Yes
No
E-mail
Fax
Own data system (e.g. SAP)
A common data system (e.g. intranet with customers)
Please rate following statements on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 = "Strongly disagree" and 7 = "Strongly agree.
30. Increasing the use of intermodal transport will make information management more difficult.
Strongly Strongly disagree agree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
31. The most important import and export cities of your company in Finland
Please rank the top 5 Finnish cities your company uses for import and export. If the particular city is not listed, then use the city that is located near it. 1 = "1st highest", 2 = "2nd highest", 3 = "3rd highest", 4 = "4th highest" and 5 = "5th highest".
Example: If your company uses three different Finnish cities for import and five different cities for export, then mark the most used import city with "1", second used with "2" and third used with "3". After that mark most used export city with "1", second used with "2" and so on until you have marked the fifth used export city with "5".
City
Import ranking
Export ranking
Hämeenlinna
Heinola
Imatra
Joensuu
Jyväskylä
Kokkola
Kuopio
Kouvola
Lahti
Lappeenranta
Luumäki
Mikkeli
Oulu
Pori
Riihimäki
Rovaniemi
Seinäjoki
Tampere
Vaasa
Varkaus
32. Your company's most used seaport or seaports
Please rank the top 5 Finnish seaports your company uses for import and export. 1 = "1st highest", 2 = "2nd highest", 3 = "3rd highest, 4 = "4th highest" and 5 = "5th highest". If your company does not use any seaports, then leave blank. If your company uses only one seaport, then mark that one only.
Seaport
Ranking
Port of Hamina
Port of Hanko
Port of Helsinki
Port of Kemi
Port of Kokkola
Port of Kotka
Port of Lappeenranta
Port of Loviisa
Port of Naantali
Port of Oulu
Port of Pietarsaari
Port of Pori
Port of Raahe
Port of Rauma
Port of Sköldvik
Port of Tornio
Port of Turku
Port of Vaasa
33. Would you like to receive the research report, when it is ready?
