LOGCHAIN+ is a Europe-wide network for promoting research and development in the field of international freight logistics technologies. It was launched in 2006 and is the successor of the EUREKA Umbrella LOGCHAIN.
As a platform for launching new cooperative research projects at the international level, the Umbrella LOGCHAIN+ has the objective of improving international freight transport within Europe through the development and optimization of continuous logistic chains between shipper and receiver.
Particularly important fields of activity of LOGCHAIN+ are:
- customised freight services
- fully interoperable infrastructure
- modular interoperable rolling stock
- impact and sustainability
- short sea shipping
- transalpine freight