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IW-NET cooperation with the EU-funded H2020 waterborne innovation projects
Earlier this year, the NOVIMOVE project team identified the crosslinks between EU-funded projects in a field of waterborne innovation. An initiative was taken to strengthen the ties between the respective projects’ teams, which resulted [...]
IW-NET results to be presented at the Austrian Logistics Day
28th Austrian Logistics Day – 28-29 September 2021, Linz, Austria At the end of September 2021, the largest Austrian logistics event is going to take place in Linz - 'Austrian Logistics Day'. Topics and [...]
Inland Shipping in Bremen gets good grades – IW-Net survey sees potential for digitalisation
Bremenports, together with the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics, has recently conducted a large-scale online survey to increase satisfaction of inland barge operators, improve planning on-shore, and to find out how digitalisation in [...]
PLATINA3 – Registration is OPEN for the 2nd Stage Event in October 2021
Together with its partners, the PLATINA3 team is pleased to invite you to the upcoming PLATINA3 – Strasbourg sessions on 19 October. The official programme of the sessions will be announced shortly. You can [...]
EU Strategy for the Danube Region – Working Group on Administrative Processes
EUSDR PA1a & PA11 Working Group on Administrative Processes Not all Danube riparian states are in the EU/ in the Schengen area. The results are therefore compulsory border checks and customs clearance at the [...]
Infrastructure bottlenecks in Inland Waterway Transport
Can digital technologies provide solutions to extend existing boundaries? Modal shift is ultimately the result of a competitive advantage that one transport mode has over other transport alternatives. Besides price, flexibility or sustainability, the [...]
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IW-NET cooperation with the EU-funded H2020 waterborne innovation projects
Earlier this year, the NOVIMOVE project team identified the crosslinks between EU-funded projects in a field of waterborne innovation. An initiative was taken to strengthen the ties between the respective projects’ teams, which resulted [...]
Inland Shipping in Bremen gets good grades – IW-Net survey sees potential for digitalisation
Bremenports, together with the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics, has recently conducted a large-scale online survey to increase satisfaction of inland barge operators, improve planning on-shore, and to find out how digitalisation in [...]
EU Strategy for the Danube Region – Working Group on Administrative Processes
EUSDR PA1a & PA11 Working Group on Administrative Processes Not all Danube riparian states are in the EU/ in the Schengen area. The results are therefore compulsory border checks and customs clearance at the [...]
Infrastructure bottlenecks in Inland Waterway Transport
Can digital technologies provide solutions to extend existing boundaries? Modal shift is ultimately the result of a competitive advantage that one transport mode has over other transport alternatives. Besides price, flexibility or sustainability, the [...]
Examining Danube Infrastructure within IW-Net Danube Living Lab
The Danube represents one of the rivers with the highest transport volume of about 60 million tons in 2019. Different elements of the infrastructure, such as 18 locks and 75 ports, ensure that the [...]
IW-NET project leads the IWT sector’s input for new ISO standard
The IW-Net project - through the work of its partners: the Smart Freight Centre and the European Inland Waterway Transport Platform, is leading the input of information for the sector-specific annex of the forthcoming international [...]
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Events
IW-NET results to be presented at the Austrian Logistics Day
28th Austrian Logistics Day – 28-29 September 2021, Linz, Austria At the end of September 2021, the largest Austrian logistics event is going to take place in Linz - 'Austrian Logistics Day'. Topics and [...]
PLATINA3 – Registration is OPEN for the 2nd Stage Event in October 2021
Together with its partners, the PLATINA3 team is pleased to invite you to the upcoming PLATINA3 – Strasbourg sessions on 19 October. The official programme of the sessions will be announced shortly. You can [...]
Port of the Future built with LEGO®
Would you like to see a Lego® harbour? Now you can! The Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition of 2021 is taking place in Steyr. The exhibition, entitled ‘Work, Prosperity, Power’ was launched on 24 April [...]
The Value of Inland Navigation for Europe – successful virtual event
On Tuesday, 16.03.2021, a successful virtual event about the value of Inland Navigation for Europe was organized. PIANC YP-com sections of Germany and Austria have come together with MCN, DST, bremenports, TTS and the University of Applied [...]
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1st Stage event PLATINA3: the Budapest sessions on 7-8 April are OPEN for registration
PLATINA3 - Platform for the implementation of a future inland navigation action programme, has officially kicked-off.
This project aims to improve impact and broaden stakeholder engagement in support of transport [...]
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Press releases
New Horizon 2020 project IW-NET will foster innovation in inland waterway transportation
The transport sector has a crucial role to play in the supply of goods, in particular medicines, medical devices, food and other essential commodities needed to overcome this crisis.
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