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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With the third stakeholder-workshop successfully organised on 26 January in Vienna, an important step forward has been made in further fine-tuning and developing a strategic roadmap for the implementation of hydrogen infrastructure along the Danube. Funded by the
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the aim of the exploratory project
H2 meets H2O is to assess the feasibility and applicability of hydrogen supply along the Danube as logistics backbone from a technical, legal and socio-economic point of view.
Pro Danube, in its capacity as project coordinator, provides input to the roadmap from a twofold perspective: on the one hand by reflecting the industry's perspective and on the other hand by investigating the multitude of financing and funding possibilities on the EU level for potential follow-up projects.
The 23rd of November marked the closing event of a successful transnational partnership co-initiated by
Pro Danube for the benefit of the Danube ports community - the
DIONYSUS project. Supported by the
Danube Ports Network, Pro Danube has successfully coordinated numerous knowledge-transfer & creation as well as capitalisation activities, facilitating synergies with EU transport policy initiatives and other port development-related projects.
Developed by Pro Danube, a video, highlighting the project's main achievements and its enduring impact on the well-being of Danube ports was officially launched in the frame of the final event.
The video 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.