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Pro Danube, together with its project partners, cordially invites you to participate in the closing event of the exploratory project H2 meets H2O. Coordinated by the Pro Danube Management and co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the aim of the project 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.

With the strong involvement of relevant stakeholder, the project resulted in the elaboration of a roadmap for the implementation of hydrogen infrastructure, along with hydrogen-based transport and propulsion technologies in shipping.

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Elaborated under the coordination of Pro Danube Management GmbH, the PLATINA3 Report on best practices, and recommendations for further integration of IWT in synchromodal logistics chains, is now available for download. In a specially released video, Róbert Rafael and Ruxandra Matzalik Florescu provide first-hand insights into the core results of the report.

The video and the deliverable can be accessed here.

A proud member of the PLATINA3 Consortium, Pro Danube would like to use this opportunity to kindly invite you to participate in the project's final event. On this occasion, the core results of PLATINA3 in terms of policy recommendations, research, and development as well as the proposed regulatory pathway towards 0 emission fleet will be presented and discussed with high-ranking policy and technology experts of the IWT sector. 

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Referring to our calls for action and co-operative and proactive fairway management, signed and submitted in September 2021 and July 2022, regrettably, we need to inform you that – according to our and our members´ predictions based on the trends and latest measurements – a similar situation is expected again in 2023.

This refers to the same Danube section as in the previous years, namely between rkm 563 to rkm 565 which has led to standstills in the past – forcing dozens of pushers, vessels, and hundreds of barges to wait for maintenance of the fairway by dredging on the relevant section.

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