20.500.12556/DKUM-97024 Supply chain engineering considering parameters for sustainable overseas intermodal transport of small consignments An increasingly environmentally conscious global economy is placing new demands on supply chain engineering, with a focus on sustainable approaches to modelling transport chain. In addition to the price and time efficiencies that characterize agile and lean supply chains, strategies for low-carbon and energy-efficient external transport must also be incorporated. This research therefore focuses on the challenges of organizing the supply of small overseas shipments to define how the relationship between land and sea transport in the selected intermodal chain affects environmental and energy performance. Understanding the input parameters and their impacts is a prerequisite for planning CO2, NOx, SO2 and NMHC emissions, as well as energy efficiency (EE) of overseas transportation. The number of individual transport legs and their characteristics are crucial parameters for sustainable transport chains. The applicability of the proposed research framework is carried out on the example of outbound supply chains of the southern part of the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor using intermodal transport chains of small shipments via the ports of Koper and Genoa. The results of the case study show that an additional transport leg representing only 2 % longer land transport to the port of Genoa significantly affects the carbon footprint of the whole supply chain's compared to chains via the port of Koper. Moreover, other results also require special attention in supply chain modeling. The study enriches the field of supply chain engineering, as there is a lack of such studies. The study is part of the project "Green port - Developing a sustainable model for the growth of the green port", co-founded by the Slovenian Research Agency. supply chain intermodal transport energy efficiency small overseas shipments oskrbovalne verige intermodalni transport energetska učinkovitost majhne čezmorske pošiljke true false true Chair of Production Engineering (CPE), University of Maribor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://apem-journal.org/ Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Članek v reviji 2026-02-12 08:52:56 2026-02-12 08:52:57 2026-02-13 03:12:11 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 str. 79-91 no. 1 Vol. 18 Mar. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2022-11-13 2023-03-12 2023-04-29 656.6:005.51 159021059 10.14743/apem2023.1.458 1854-6250 APEM18-1_079-091.pdf APEM18-1_079-091.pdf 1 2B5AF40E397936BC2D961BC2B3AB310E 7dcbc2b90e3adc4f94415b43d6056045094804b32a7ac634c0bedae26ce487d5 062e3675-07e8-11f1-93cb-00155d00019a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203252 https://apem-journal.org/Archives/2023/Abstract-APEM18-1_079-091.html 0 231f3336-07e8-11f1-93cb-00155d00019a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203253 Fakulteta za strojništvo Advances in production engineering & management 0 0 0