On 19th June 2019, a workshop about the realization of a modern fleet, enhancing navigation safety and fostering innovations was organised in the framework of the 55th session of the Working Party on the Standardization of Technical and Safety Requirements in Inland Navigation (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - UNECE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The major challenges of the modernisation of the Inland Waterway Transport in Europe were reminded.

The workshop was gathering delegations, among others delegations of Danube States (Germany, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine), and other stakeholders involved in the thematic of the modernisation of the fleet as EUROMOT or Tehag Engineering AG. Innovative projects and European regulations for engines were in particularly presented.

A panel was dedicated to the modernisation and greening of the fleet on the Danube during which the GRENDEL project, its mains goals, the results it already achieved and those still to come were presented. The representative of the UNECE Secretariat warmly welcomed the GRENDEL project. The workshop was an opportunity to promote the need of harmonized public support via State Aid Schemes and a regulatory framework which promotes modernization of Danube fleet.

More information about the workshop is available on the UNECE website.