Description: NEWS' principal objective is to increase (container) transport flows on inland waterways (especially the Danube) by developing a Next generation European Inland Waterway Ship and logistics system to make container transport on inland waterways more cost-, time- and ecologically efficient. Hence, it supports the full integration of waterborne transport into the EU transport and logistics chain. Furthermore, NEWS aims at • reducing ecological impact of container transport • enabling unobstructed transport links across continental Europe by technically surpassing existing bottlenecks on the axis Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube (by connecting the Black Sea Region to the North Sea Region, an extensive Trans-European impact will be achieved regarding traversed regions as the Danube Region) • contributing to the "EU Strategy for the Danube Region's" aim to increase the cargo transport on the river by 20% by 2020 compared to the year 2010 • contributing to the development of ports in the Danube river basin into multimodal logistics centres and efficient multimodal terminals to connect inland waterways with rail and road transport by the year 2020 NEWS combines technical and logistical innovations to assist cross-border European challenges for an optimized container inland waterway transport

Contact person: Prof. dr Milosav Georgijević
Period of realization: 2013 – 2015
ID: 314005 FP7-TRANSPORT