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Welcome on board to our newest member! We are thrilled to announce that WienCont GmbH has recently decided to join the Pro Danube community.

The business of WienCont, a leading Austrian company with over 40 years of experience, is the handling, storage and trading of a wide variety of intermodal loading units, including all the associated repair, testing and services, both stationary and mobile.

Our focus is clearly on neutrality and the highest quality of service paired with maximum flexibility for our partners. We live the diversity of products and solutions and rely on future-oriented, innovative services in technology and processes. Profitable growth for the Freudenau location and the city of Vienna with ecological and communal responsibility is our priority. This motivates us to achieve top performance every day and to strive for permanent improvement.

WienCont will continue to expand its position as the leading trimodal hinterland terminal in Austria and Europe in the coming years and play an active pioneering role.

A proud member of the Lasting Consortium, we are delighted to invite you to the Waterborne Days conference, taking place in Brussels on 26 - 27 September 2023. The interactive two-day conference on the European Waterborne Transport Sector will have multiple sessions exploring different ship types through the lens of research and development and their contribution to the green & digital transition.

When: 26-27 September 2023

Where: Brussels

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Pro Danube's General Secretary Róbert Rafael shared in the frame of an event dedicated to the potential of hydrogen as a solution to sustainable mobility, organised in Vienna by the Austrian Association for Transport and Infrastructure, the results of the interdisciplinary exploratory project H2 meets H2O. Successfully implemented under the lead of Pro Danube, the core findings of the project highlight the fact that hydrogen has an important role to play in achieving a climate-neutral IWT sector.

 

Co-funded by FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency, the aim of the exploratory project H2 meets H2O was to assess the feasibility and applicability of hydrogen supply along the Danube as a logistics backbone from a technical, legal, and socio-economic point of view. A fruitful collaboration between Pro Danube, Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz, Hafen Wien GmbH, Hochschule Landshut, viadonau and VEREIN WIVA P&G – WASSERSTOFFINITIATIVE VORZEIGEREGION AUSTRIA POWER & GAS, the project resulted in the elaboration of a roadmap for the implementation of hydrogen supply along the Danube.

The presentations delivered in the frame of the event are available for download here.

In line with the United Nations Agenda 2030, the European Green Deal and the Austrian government programme, the recently released Austrian Danube Action Programme sets the direction of national development until 2030. Adopted by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, the programme is a clear commitment to climate and environmental protection, to a resilient Danube waterway and to environmentally friendly and competitive inland navigation.

Pro Danube was actively involved in the consultation and preparation process of the programme. 

 

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