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Constant global economic growth and deepening differentiation in customer demand resulting in expectation of supplies customization are stimulating increasing in international trade. In effect transport activates are becoming more intensive on the global scale. At the same time transport management process is supported by different types of tools helping managers to achieve strategic supply chain goals. However, transport operations are rarely indicated as those that add value in the area of its sustainable development. Therefore it is worth to promote such a solutions as multimodal transport that adds value not only in terms of door-to-door model but as a sustainable mode. Project ChemMultimodal, as a reply to those challenges, aims to promote multimodal transport by designing special tool for those kind of operations. The part of the first phase of the Project was to diagnose current tools used by companies engaged in the supply chain in chemical sector in Poland. The results show that the most common IS solution are the systems integrated within one company. Respondents evaluated them on quite high level in terms of time savings and data security. However they also underlined limited access to information as one of the main IS disadvantage. Those results confirm the need for in-depth analysis of the possibility of increased use of multimodal transport by supporting firms with the tool that helps planning and decisions making. In effect they can increase competitive advantages and meet environmental requirements by rise of multimodal transport solutions usage.

Keywords: Transport management tools, sustainable transport, multimodal

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