INTELLECTUAL ECONOMICS 2008, Number 2(4)
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKSTRAINING BOOK “FREIGHT TRANSPORT SYSTEM” (review of the book of R. Minalga)
Mykolas Romeris University Publishing Centre. Vilnius. Lithuania 2008 Nr.2(4), p. 92
Development of economy of Lithuania as a
transit country is directly related to transport system
consisting of transport roads, infrastructure objects,
technologies of types of transport and managerial
structures.
Only developed freight transport system makes
premises and provides conditions for not only
satisfying requirements of the contemporary freight
carriage market but also developing logistic services.
Therefore, some new goals are set for the freight
transport system- to integrate into the transport market
of the European Union, to attract some new consumers
of transport services and increase the volume
of transit freight carriage this way.
The book reviews some separate processes of
creation and development of types of transport in
Lithuania, components of the freight transport system
as well as transport system management issues,
introducing transport infrastructure objects, carriage
machinery and freight carriage organization by different
kinds of transport, freight carriage tariff pricemaking
under market and competition conditions.
The chapter “Freight transport system development
outlooks” introduces development tendencies
of separate branches of transport as provided
by Long-term Transport Development Program by
2015 approved by the Government of the Republic
of Lithuania in 2005 the freight transport system development
outlooks are directly related with further
development of transport passages of international
importance and Klaipėda Sea Port in.
The training book “Freight Transport System”
is intended for persons studying subjects of transport
and logistics, business management and international
business organization.
Department of Customs Activity
Faculty of Economics and Finance Managment
Mykolas Romeris University,
Lithuania