This guide is intended to be useful mainly to a group of users related to Short Sea Shipping (SSS) and intermodal transport, such as:

1.       Shippers willing to set up improvements to intermodal transport operations

2.       Short Sea Promotion Centres, willing to find useful best practices cases to demonstrate SSS benefits and its operational improvements

3.       Transport operators, particularly those participating in Container shipping, RoRo and LoLo operations

4.       Operators willing to develop performance indicators that help measuring improvements in their intermodal operations

5.       European Commission and State Agencies responsible for policy development affecting Short Sea Shipping and intermodality.