France’s Port of Le Havre is expanding its shipping
and cargo shuttle services and connecting them with
rail terminals. Europort Vatry in France’s Champagne
Region has an all-cargo airport equipped for
wide body jets that will interface with a road transport
center connecting Europe’s major east–west and
north–south highways, a rail freight terminal, and a
logistics complex and service center concentrated on
the same site (Schwartz, 1999b). The Port of Hamburg,
which has the largest rail container-handling
center in Europe, is linking its shipping ports to Germany’s
growing system of inland water and surface
transportation terminals. The Port of Antwerp is
developing facilities to link its deep-sea shipping
facilities with barge canal services to Liege, Brussels,
the Ruhr area of Germany, and through the Rhine –
Maine – Danube canal systems to the Black Sea. The
port connects to 12 international railway terminals in
Antwerp, trucking facilities, and the European
motorway system that extends trucking services into
Germany, Northern France, Brussels, Paris, and
Amsterdam. Airfreight forwarding services transfer
cargo from Antwerp’s shipping ports to its own and
to Brussels’ airport by road and rail