by David Edwards-May | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 a pandemic and governments worldwide have taken wide-ranging measures to contain the spread of the virus. Inland Waterways International is one of many organisations that has signed an appeal...
by David Edwards-May | Dec 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a member of PIANC’s Navigating a Changing Climate initiative, IWI supports the association’s Declaration on Climate Change, launched today 10th December 2019, during the Round Table on Resilience at COP25 in Madrid, Spain. The President of the World...
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 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...
