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Pro Danube International welcomes the Report "Towards Future-Proof Inland Waterway Transport in Europe" initiated by MEP Caroline Nagtegaal and adopted by the European Parliament that recognizes IWT's crucial role in achieving the ambitious objectives of the European Green Deal. In achieving IWT's ultimate goal in becoming climate neutral, the report stresses that adequate "investments in expanding, updating and upgrading the physical and digital infrastructure of inland waterways" are essential prerequisites. Likewise important is the development of inland and seaports as multimodal nodes in the transnational logistics system as well as the human-resources aspects in providing appropriate working conditions, modernising the inland navigation education and training system, and last but not least, to encourage the development of research and innovation within the sector.

The report is available for download here. 

Acting as a unified, harmonised voice that represents the interest of the Danube IWT sector, Pro Danube International has addressed a Call for Action in order to efficiently tackle inadequate fairway maintenance issues which continue to hamper the full exploitation of IWT as a reliable and economical viable mode of transport, pointing to the current situation at Danube rkm 565-563.

The Call for Action on Cooperative and Proactive Fairway Management is available for download here.

 Our cordial welcome goes to our new member DP World Constanța! Thank you for trusting us and appreciating our joint efforts for the benefit of the Danube IWT sector.

DP World Constanța offers importers & exporters in Central Europe speedier and more cost-effective access to the Far East market than movement via the traditional routing over North Continental ports by avoiding congested intermodal bottlenecks in Western Europe. To promote this routing, DP World is actively developing an intermodal network reaching out from the port to assist shippers in the movement of their cargo. The current capacity of the terminal is approximately 1,200,000 TEU and there is sufficient land area for phased expansion to cater for volumes in excess of 4,500,000 TEU. 

DP World Constanța's terminal is acknowledged to be the Black Sea's premier container terminal, serving both the Romanian domestic market and a wider hinterland spreading into parts of Central Europe, together with first-class feeder connections to the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia & Moldova.

To find out more about our new member, please visit https://www.dpworld.com/constanta

Pro Danube would like to use this opportunity to inform you of the announced closure on the Slovak section of the Danube (river km 1,865.4 - 1,853, canal km 38.4 - 8.3) between September 28, 2021 (12:00 p.m.) and October 4, 2021 (00:00 a.m.).

Details from the Slovak Notice to Skippers are available here.