About “#Inland Waterway Transport Solutions 2.0 (#IWTS 2.0)”
Welcome to the webspace of #IWTS 2.0 – a project co-funded by the North Sea Region Programme 2014 – 2020.
Inland waterway transport (IWT) is a reliable, climate friendly transport alternatives for all types of commodities. The energy input per t/km is superior to rail and road transport. The purpose of #IWTS 2.0 is to promote inland navigation on Europe´s canal and river network.
Explore this webspace to learn how inland navigation can contribute to your logistics needs.
Why Inland Waterway Transportation?
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“We work excellently with inland waterway transport because the pre-carriages or oncarriages
come explicitly from Rotterdam or Antwerp”
Wolfgang Weber, CEO, EKB Container Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen, Germany
“I should like to compare logistics to a transmission. There are participants who have large and
small shares in the system, but only the interaction of all elements, including inland waterway transportation, makes everything move.”
Arne Harms, Harms Binnenschifffahrt GmbH Elsfleth, Germany
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Some basic facts about Inland Waterway Transportation
Explore the Inland Waterway Transportation System
Have you ever wondered how goods arrive on your doorstep?
Inland navigation provides an environmentally friendly way to serve transport needs in a growing, and increasingly digital logistics industry across Central Europe. However, we think it is under-utilised: It can deliver more! Explore what this website is all about.
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Explore this website to discover how. Listen to the presentation to navigate through the #IWTS 2.0 – Learning Inventory. |
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This video introduces you to the concept of a simple transport chain. It shows the components of such a chain from source to destination. The video illustrates where inland navigation might come in. |
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Inland waterway transport – A transport solution that works. File credits: EU |
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This video illustrates challenges for inland navigation along transport chains. |
What is inland waterway transportation (IWTS) all about?
Inland navigation offers direct connections to most deepsea ports in North-western Europe. Especially for containers, bulk and project cargoes, the advantages of inland navigation brought to bear. Depending on the size of the river or canal an inland waterway vessel can be up to 135m long and be able to carry around 5.300t. Due to capacity reserves on inland waterways barges are mostly punctual and dependable.
Discover here how it works!
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Europe’s network of navigable rivers and canals offers access to the continent’s urban and industrial centres, allowing for the more efficient, cleaner, quieter, and safer transport of goods – large and small.
Video credits: Inland Navigation Europe |
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See how two companies use inland shipping to optimise their logistic processes.
Video credits: Stichting Connekt |
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Working in inland navigation is adventurous, you travel all over Europe. Working in inland navigiation is varied; every day is different. Working in inland navigation is challenging with many options and career opportunities, job guarantee, a good salary and good leisure time arrangements. You want that too? Look at the possibilities.
Video credits: BV Binnenvaart |
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Take a virtual tour of the INLAND CONTAINER SHIP “LINJAD”
Video credits: Rensen-Driessen Shipbuilding B.V. |
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Take a virtual tour by barge from Bergen Op zoom (The Netherlands) to Antwerp (Belgium)
Credits: Inland vessel Vera Cruz |
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Inland waterways and ports in action (language: German)
Video credits: Inland Navigation Europe |
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Inland ports: Essential parts of water-borne supply chain (language: German)
Video credits: Bundesverband öffentlicher Binnenhäfen |
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Inland ports: thriathlon-like changing zones (language: German)
Video credits: bayernhäfen GmbH & Co. KG |
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Navigation on Finnland´s Saimaa-Waterway
Video credits: Interreg-Project EMMA |
| https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/die_nordstory/Alte-Kanaele-in-Schleswig-Holstein,dienordstory1116.html | A very good report on inland waterways of the past. Unfortunately German only.
Video credits: NDR |
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IWTS for your cargo?
Explore the examples!
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Containers travelling the River Rhine.
Video credits: MKROXTON |
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Commercial shipping on the River Whaal, The Netherlands.
Video credits: waterways52 |
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Ketchup and sweats travelling on Dutch waterways: A case study video (language: Dutch with English subtitles)
Video credits: Inland Navigation Europe |
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When it comes to grain transport, inland waterways are the environmentally friendly and cost-effective alternative to road and rail. The ecological and economical advantages of transport via an existing broad network of rivers can be maximized even further through highly efficient unloading of barges. What is required? A high-performance unloading system that sets new standards in the areas of energy
Video credits: Bühler Group – Bargolink™, the future of inland waterway transportation |
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IWTS - Innovation delivered
Inland navigation is more innovative than you might think. Here are some examples which might even encourage you to think of some innovative concept for a custom-made solution by yourself!
First of all, there are the trends like digitalisation or the sharing of freight information and vessel pooling for a higher vessel utilisation. Then there is the idea of selfgeared inland vessels. Furthermore, there are concepts for metropoles addressing the enormous everyday traffic on the roads. Inland vessels could be used like watertrucks in a combination of push boats and barges or small self-propelled vessels using also very small waterways.
Explore the examples!
| Learn about the trends in inland shipping. File credits: OECD |  |
| The “Masterplan Binnenschifffahrt” of the Federal Ministry for Transportation and Digitisation, Germany: A political roadmap. File credits: BMVI |  |
| See how port companies share freight information to pool vessel usage. Video credits: Frisian Ports |
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| Demonstrating the use of urban and inland waterways – for densely populated cities and more sustainable transport |
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| Demonstrating the use of inland waterways in Sweden |
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| How do your drinks get to your local pub? Demonstrating the use of urban waterways: The beer boat – an all electric urban supply vessel. File courtesy of: Inland Navigation Europe |
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Inland waterways transport for city logistics: File courtesy of: Inland Navigation Europe |
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The NEWS project has developed a Next Generation European Inland Waterway Ship and logistics system to make container transport on inland waterways more cost-, time- and ecologically efficient. It supports the full integration of waterborne transport into the EU transport and logistics chain (video 1). File courtesy of: NEWS project |
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The NEWS project has developed a Next Generation European Inland Waterway Ship and logistics system to make container transport on inland waterways more cost-, time- and ecologically efficient. It supports the full integration of waterborne transport into the EU transport and logistics chain (video 2). File courtesy of: NEWS project |
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Normally, inland vessels are not equipped with handling technology. This one is – explore the Mercurius Crane Barge. File courtesy of: Mercurius Shipping Group |
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Watertruck is an innovative transport concept where small vessels (push boats and barges) are operated in a similarway as road transport (truck/trailer concept), whereby convoys are formed on large fairways and individual (self-propelled) barges or smaller convoys can penetrate the capillar network of small waterways. File courtesy of: Watertruck |
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Watch here what is so special about Watertruck. File courtesy of: Watertruck |
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| IT Technologies for Inland Waterway Transport. File credits: ST4W |  |
| Digitisation of the River Elbe corridor, Germany. File credits: HTC |  |
| Launch of the emission-free barge “Green Wave”. File credits: #IWTS 2.0 |  |
Students´ Material and Research into Inland Shipping
One of the objectives of the #IWTS 2.0-Project is bring inland shipping onto the mental radar screens of students and young professionals. Browse here the outcome of academic research into IWT sponsored by the IWTS 2.0-Project, so everybody else can benefit.
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Promoting inland waterway transport as part of future sustainable transport solutions |
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Development of instructional learning material based on competencies for an inland waterway transportation learning platform at bremenports |
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Of Containers and Feedstuff – Inland Shipping in Northern Germany: Two Case Studies |
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Want more?
Want to have more information?
If you would like to learn more about the wonderful world of inland waterway vessels, you have come to the right place. On our website you will find only a small extract of information. Many more facts and figures about IWTS 2.0 can be found on the Interreg North Sea Region website.
A comprehensive learning repository with plenty of information and case studies is provided here:
REWWay.at – Research and Education in Inland Waterway Logistics
| See here for an introduction to REWWay.at. File credits: Rewway.at |
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In addition, the Bundesverband öffentlicher Binnenhäfen e.V. provides information on the subject along with many other platforms. A corresponding link collection with platforms, websites and videos can be found here.
The Project #IWTS 2.0
Inland Navigation Europe:
Bundesverband öffentlicher Binnenhäfen
European Inland Barging Innovation Platform
Best-practice-seminar for IWT held online
bremenports and Maritime Cluster Norddeutschland e.V. offered an online seminar on best-practices in inland shipping. Four experts from industry and government showed innovative concepts for modal shifts onto the waterway. Representatives from Wienerberger and the...
TransportLab – the challenge: intermodal transport of high-value construction machinery from Linz, Austria, to Singapore
What best gets inland waterway transportation onto the mental radar screens of young logistics professionals? If you said “practice, practice”, that´s what we would do as well. And practice they got. Our Transportation Lab provided them with invaluable case-study work...
New Case Studies published
#IWTS 2.0 aims to bring inland shipping onto the mental radarscreens of logistics decision makers. Four case studies showcase the strength of inland shipping (IWT). The cases outline established and innovative uses of IWT in Northern Germany, The Netherlands and...