GRENDEL Green and efficient Danube Fleet

In the framework of the GRENDEL project, first factsheets regarding the potential of innovative technologies in modernising inland vessels were released in cooperation with the INDanube Innovation Transfer Centre. As one of the main...

SAVE THE DATE: 7-8 March 2019, in Vienna. Inland shipping is facing enormous challenges with regard to the further optimisation of energy efficiency, environmental and climate protection. Greenhouse Gas Emissions is a very hot topic on the...

Council conclusions on “Inland waterway transport – exploiting its full potential” were adopted on 3 December 2018. The conclusions acknowledge the significant contribution that this efficient, safe and sustainable mode of transport can make...

Prague, 8 November 2018 – The European Committee for drawing up Standards in the field of Inland Navigation (CESNI) met in Prague on Thursday 8 November 2018 in grateful response to an invitation from the Ministry of Transport of the Czech...

GRENDEL project follows developments of future innovative technologies and alternative fuelling options for inland waterway vessels with the goal to share this know-how with the Danube inland vessels operators and stakeholders. On 5 November...

GRENDEL project follows developments of alternative fuels infrastructure for bunkering of  inland vessels, looking for good practices and examples which can help the Danube case and support inland vessels’ operators in their decisions on fleet...

On 10 October  2018, the annual Advisory Board Meeting of the European Inland Barging Innovation Platform (EIBIP) was organised in Vienna, Austria. Already five Centres for Innovation Transfer in the Inland Waterway Transport are cooperating...

Alike the IWT the seagoing industry also faces a growing need for fleet greening. The conference organised by the German association “Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft” on 24 September 2018 in Hamburg offered insights into some details of this...

The European Commission published last week a mid-term report on the EU inland waterway action programme - also known as NAIADES II - and a report on digital inland navigation (DINA). The NAIADES II progress report highlights that most of the...

The report on Digital Inland Navigation published last week by the European Commission follows up on the ‘Digital Inland Waterway Area’ (DINA) study from October 2017. The report helps framing the discussion on the digitalisation of the inland...

The Policy Agenda Workshop organised by Pro Danube Management GmbH as part of the DTP/GREEN DANUBE project offered a platform for inland waterway transport (IWT) stakeholders from public authorities, fleet operators and other IWT experts to...

Danube School - a 7-day creation of the Danube between Inn and March Teams of projects aiming at the improvement of the Danube both as the natural living environment and ecosystem as well as the transport artery and the Danube friends came...

The Kick-off meeting of the project GRENDEL - Green and efficient Danube Fleet took place in Constanta on 30 August 2018 gathering representatives from Danube fleet operators, its associations, relevant ministries, expert institutions and...

GRENDEL project representative, Mr Manfred Seitz (Pro Danube International) was invited to the extraordinary meeting of the CCNR Economic Committee on 25th July 2018 in Strasbourg on financing the greening of the fleet. The greening of the...