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Submitted by arn02 on December 1, 2007
Category: Social Issues
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SUBJECT: HALFWAY DOWN THE DANUBE - A ROUGH PASSAGE THROUGH MURKY WATERS
SUMMARY
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1. With 2850 kilometers of navigable waterway snaking through nine European countries, the Danube is the second longest river on the continent and the only major river to flow from West to East. It presents a major economic opportunity for Serbia, which has 25 percent or 588 km of the waterway, making it a natural connection between neighboring countries. The river is a low-cost transport corridor for bulk shippers, and it is now starting to show its potential for container shipping, as well. With neigbors Bulgaria and Romania now in the EU, and the signing by all countries in South East Europe of a new and improved CEFTA, the Danube signifies an integral symbol of potential for a further unified Europe. END SUMMARY.
VOLUME OF WATERWAY TRANSPORT IN SERBIA
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2. The most important use of the Danube is the movement of freight. According to the "Master Plan and Feasibility Study - Inland Waterway Transports for Serbia" commissioned by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), the current river network of Serbia has sufficient capacity for shipping at least 15-20 million tons of cargo per year. In theory, the Serbian section of Danube, with improvements, has a capacity of 60 million tons of cargo per year. However, during the 1990s, river traffic dropped to about 5 million tons annually, from some 25.7 million in 1988, with the bulk of traffic, local trade in raw materials. It since has rebounded to 15 million in 2005 and 14 million in 2006.
3. The overall transport volume on Serbia's inland waterway transports comes from two sources: industrial and commercial traffic (freight), and cruise traffic and yachting (passengers). Traffic flows from these sources fall into several categories: 1) domestic traffic between ports and industrial areas within Serbia,...
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