Railway and Ports Organisation in the Republic of South Africa and Turkey: the Integrator's Paradise?

There seems to be an inevitable tendency among transport experts to focus on “their” part of the production system without looking at transport from the point of view of the customer – the shipper/receiver. The result is often either a fascination with pieces of technology or a focus on a single mode. From this point of view, concerns for “efficiency” and economies of scale tend to dominate, while the functioning of the entire door-to-door network, and especially the issues of competition within the network, often receive short shrift. One purpose of this Round Table is to correct this.