To try to it increase the amount of freight volume this mode of transport has in the EU, the Port of Hamburg is helping organise a one-day conference to address the issue.<\/p>\n
EMMA Project<\/strong><\/p>\n The conference is being organised under the auspices of the Chamber Union Elbe\/Oder and the EMMA project, for which Hamburg is the lead partner.<\/p>\n EMMA is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 and aims to tackle the challenges and opportunities in inland and river-sea shipping in the Baltic Sea Region.<\/p>\n Hamburg argues that increasing the modal share of inland navigation in the EU will help to handle the expected growth in transport volumes in a sustainable way saving transport costs, reducing emissions and decongesting roads.<\/p>\n The trouble is that even though the potential of inland waterway transport is high, it currently has only a 6% share of the freight market in the EU.<\/p>\n Keynote speakers at the conference will include Kurt Bodewig, European Coordinator for Baltic-Adriatic Core Network Corridor TEN-T and Mandate Innovative Financing Instruments at DG MOVE. The event will be opened by Per Th\u00f6resson, Ambassador of the Swedish Embassy in Berlin.<\/p>\n The conference will take place in Berlin on Wednesday 21 February.<\/p>\n