by David Edwards-May | Feb 16, 2014 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Policy, Waterway funding
Czech president Milos Zeman will be at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg on 26 February 2014, to lobby for inclusion of the Danube-Oder-Elbe water corridors in Europe’s ‘core corridor network’ for transport infrastructure investments....
by David Edwards-May | Jan 3, 2013 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Policy
Vive VNF under its new statute as a public administration! Following the successful public consultation process, the State body is expected to start works on enlarging the Creil-Compiègne section of the river Oise to European Class Vb capacity. The works are needed to...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 25, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Inland water transport, Waterway personalities
Radomir Ječinac reports from Belgrade, Serbia, on the ‘regatta’ (flotilla cruise) organised on the canals and waterways of Serbia in June/July 2012. Remember IWI’s annual World Canals Conference held in Serbia, in the beautiful city of Novi Sad on...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 12, 2012 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Waterway funding
The Seine-Nord canal project is now very close to being abandoned by the French Government, along with the Lyon-Turin rail link and base tunnel and about 15 other sections of the high-speed rail network, promoted in 2010 under the ‘Grenelle’ package of...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 6, 2012 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Policy, Waterway funding
The Seine-Nord Europe Canal project is still alive! The proposed Seine-Nord Europe Canal will create a high-capacity freight corridor from Le Havre to northern France, the Benelux countries and the Rhine, for a cost estimated at €4.3 billion, of which €2.1 billion to...
by David Edwards-May | Jun 7, 2012 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Policy, Waterway funding
French president François Hollande supports inland water transport as a carrier of freight to and from the country’s struggling seaports. While still a candidate in the second round of the presidential election, he signed on May 2nd a letter to two waterway...