4. Standardisation is on the agenda of the EU-USA Forum on Freight Intermodalism.
This Forum aims at gathering the views of high-level industry representatives of the USA on Trans-Atlantic intermodal transport and is organised once a year by the European Commission and US DoT (Department of Transportation).
Unfortunately, informations are limited to the European Zone, so far.
Having in view, on the one hand, the fact that Intermodal and Short Shipping does not represent and shall not represent a transport system, applicable to one geographical region including only Europe and its hydrographical basin and, on the other hand, the international character of the standards which are to be elaborated, the Members are kindly asked and especially, extra-european Members of the Subcommitee TCS/SC11, to be informed concerning the transport system, under consideration, in the geographical zone they belong to, in order to be co-ordinated by SC all the information in view of a working programme.
Nevertheless, to define, from the beginning the limits of the working field of SC11, the following preliminary themes/titles are proposed:
1. Intermodal and Short Sea Shipping. Requirements for the Transport System:
"Intermodal and Short Sea Shipping".
2. Intermodal and Short Sea Shipping. Procedures involved in the Transport System:
"Intermodal and Short Sea Shipping".
The elaboration of these first norms is proposed to be made in co-operation with the Commitee CEN/CEN 300, of course, if the proposal would be agreed upon, taking into account the precedent already existing in this working system, between ISO/TC8/SC7 and CEN/TC15 (CEN/TC15, 00015023, CEN/TC15, 00015024).
3. Proposal for "Category A liaisons of SC11.
