On 17th and 18th September, a meeting of the international EMMA project, organised by the Inland Navigation Office and the Northern Chamber of Commerce, was held at the Maritime University of Szczecin.
The EMMA project focuses on increasing mobility of goods and logistics in the Baltic Sea Region through strengthening of the inland and sea transport as well as promoting new international navigation services. It is co-financed under a transnational programme - Interreg Baltic Sea Region.
The activities of the EMMA project are aimed at increasing knowledge on unblocking inland waterways in Poland in the context of their economic use. We would like to prove the competitive position of water transport as an ecological means of transport that allows reduction of freight costs thanks to the use of modern and friendly solutions in the infrastructure as well as new vessels adjusted to the navigational conditions.
Moreover, the participants had an opportunity to visit the simulators in the Marine Traffic Engineering Centre and the European LNG Training Centre at the Maritime University of Szczecin.
The culmination of the conference was a cruise on Odra Queen with a pre-selected route intended for observation of the existing obstacles in inland navigation, i.e. the so called “bottlenecks” on the Odra River.