동북아시아와 유럽의 대륙횡단열차 활성화 방안

Abstract

Regional cooperation and globalization is such important element that it becomes the main trend of world trade in 21st century. World trade volume has been steadily over every continent and this has significantly affected the development of container transport. As far as container traffic is concerned, Far East Asia such as Korea, China and Japan is becoming more important due to the changes of its trade structure and high growth in manufacturing output and profits. Especially, for the past ten years, it has consistently maintained a high growth of over 7% which is incredible owing to policy.

Deep sea transport which is potential to play a key role in the world trade has a competitive advantage derived from economies of scale. However, it confronts disadvantages which are long transit time and accessibility compared with other transport modes as modern logistics concept such as door to door service and JIT (Just in time), etc. is paid even more attention by logistics providers. For that reason, railway transport would be a good substitution for deep sea container transport between Europe and Far East Asia in terms of transit time.