Resumen de The last chance for intermodal strategies for redistribution of vegetables from Southeast Spain

Juan Carlos Pérez Mesa

• European Administration has spent years trying to shift traffic from the road to the sea, using intermodality in order to achieve a modal rebalancing. This study analyses new approaches that strengthen the modal shift, rather than focusing simply on the reduction of externalities. A possible option is to redefine ports, conceptualising them as redistribution and coordination centres and not only as areas of cargo exchange.

  The present article analyses this problem by attempting to promote intermodality (truck and short sea shipping) for the transport of highly perishable products (vegetables) exported from Southeast Spain, which is the leading supplier to Europe. The location of coordination centres between customer-provider is analysed by applying a p-median multicriteria model, adapted to the transport of perishables. This scheme avoids bias in decision-making processes