#IWTS2.0
Maritime - Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands
#IWTS2.0 Employees
#IWTS2.0 Details
Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) offers relatively slow, cheap, climate friendly hinterland transport alternatives for commodities transported in large quantities or bulk. The energy input per t/km is superior to rail, road transport. Many waterways in Europe remain widely un-/underused in the past decades.Addressed challenges:Low awareness about small waterway transport opportunitiesLow innovation in small barge development, transshipment of goodsLack of expertise in using small waterway opportunitiesLack of training content and dedicated crews for small waterway sailing.Partners join forces; mobilise potentials and capacity to move freight to yet under-used waterways by:Realising a quick modal shift by introducing new and proven logistic technologies and support logistic managers that decide about modal shifts.Make better use of existing waterways by adapting them towards a sufficient standardsize vessels.Make better use of existing waterways by developing innovative sustainable small barge concepts.Modernizing IWT education, training with a focus on navigation on smaller waterways.IWTS 2.0. facilitates use of IWT on smaller waterways (comprehensive network) in the NSR region linking them to main TEN-T corridors.By piloting 8 small waterway modal shifts including; innovative barge-, waterway-, transshipment-, (un)loading-, freight flow mapping-, modal shift decision making solutions, we showcase proven concepts that will be adopted by the market.
#IWTS2.0 Technologies
Load Balancers
Apache
Tag Management
Google Tag Manager
Fonts
Google Font API
Other
Google Maps
Analytics and Tracking
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