EVdB-Newsletter 16-2022

4. Workplan NTC IWT Platform 2023 - Concept
As you know the European Inland Waterway Transport Platform (IWT Platform) has the following five
committees:
• Innovation & Greening
• Sustainability, Environment & Safety
• Social & education
• Nautical & Technical
• Infrastructure
Each year, the secretaries draw up a work plan for each committee for the following
year. The IWT Platform Board decides on the work plans and budgets. For your
committee, the NTC, a work plan has been drawn up for 2023. As in previous years,
this is largely based on work plans of CESNI and the CCNR. For your information,
please find here the draft 2023 work plan for the NTC. Should you have any
questions or comments, please email.
5. Nautical and Infrastructure topics
In this article, a brief feedback (by Leny van Toorenburg) from the CCNR Infrastructure Working Group
(IEN) meeting in September. But we start with an achieved result:
Änderung der Höchstgeschwindigkeit auf der Gebirgsstrecke oberhalb Hochwassermarke I
After many years, it finally worked out. In response to
the letter from industry (2018), the German delegation
commissioned the 'Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau'
(Federal Institute of Hydraulic Engineering) to
investigate whether for valley navigation in the
mountainous section between Bingen and Sankt Goar
above high water level I, a higher maximum speed is
required for larger vessels to navigate safely and
whether an increase in the permissible maximum speed
could have negative consequences for the banks. The
speed limit in Article 10.01(1)(d) of the RPR can be
increased to 24 km/h in the mountain section between
Bingen and St. Goar in valley navigation. This fully
complies with the request of the EBU and ESO. Formal
decision-making by the CCNR will take place this fall.
New construction of transhipment site Rhine kilometre 198
This is a berth for BASF where the transhipment place is 13 meters wide and enters the fairway. This
was looked at more closely and it now appears that there are 10 more berths on the route, 8 of which
are also somewhat in the fairway. The fairway here can be shifted to the right over a length of 2
kilometres which would also put the other moorings completely outside the fairway. Drone movies
have been made with over which drawings have been superimposed to verify this. This shows that it
can be done without any problems.
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