Short Sea Shipping, Multimodality, and Sustainable Maritime Transportation.

Short sea shipping is an important research topic and is of practical interest for the shipping and transport industries in many regions across the globe. However, it is important to consider that short sea shipping cannot operate in standalone mode as it requires other modes of transportation to cover the first and last mile. The benefits of this form of transportation have been significantly discussed in the literature, but there is still the need to involve the relevant stakeholders in this discussion, listening to their specific concerns when dealing with transport decisions and taking the opportunity to disseminate the advantages of short sea shipping, often combined with other transport modes, as has been carried out in paper [[2]] in this Special Issue. [Extracted from the article]