INFORMATION ABOUT WATER CORRIDOR
DANUBE-ODER-ELBE
EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION
VIENNA/BRATISLAVA 19-21 APRIL 2010
Waterways for transport of the LNG
Diversification of supply of strategic materials
Connectivity of Danube – Oder - Elbe
• Important transport project of IV. a VI. Transeuropian transport
corridors, connection to VII. Transeuropian transport corridor;
• Missing part of the network of the waterways according to
EUROPEAN AGREEMENT ON MAIN INLAND WATERWAYS OF
INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE (AGN)
E20 – Elbe-Danube connection
E30 – Oder-Danube connection
• Parametres of the waterway:
Vb. navigation class
push-tow formation 185 x 11,4 m, draught 2,8 m
navigation lock 190 x 12,5 x 4,0 m
minimal width of the navigation way 40 m
• „Blue book“ from 1998, revised 2006: D-O-E confirmed as a missing
link by CZ, A, SK, PL and included in national development plans;
EUROPIAN UNION
• D-O-E connection is from 1993 in the list of TEN-T
Network – Inland Waterways;
• Paneuropian conference about inland navigation in
Rotterdam 09/2000 recommend support effort to
realization connection D-O-E,
Waterways of the Czech Republic
Regulated river Morava downstream the town Hodonín, running along
riverrine forests represents practically ready-made stretch of the water
corridor D-O-E.
First km of the water corridor D-O-E at Lobau by Vienna. Now it is
separated by antiflood dyke.
First km of the water corridor D-O-E at Lobau by Vienna now.
First km of the water corridor D-O-E at Děvín by Bratislava.
Confluence Morava and Danube.
First km of the water corridor D-O-E in Poland.
Port of Kozle and Gliwice channel.
Connection of the Gliwice channel to the branch D-O in Poland.
Environmental aspects of the D-O-E Connection
• Example:
new trajectory of the corridor in the Oder
protected landscape area;
newly designed shallow water zones;
Importances of water corridor D-O-E
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Protection against flood
Water retention in landscape
Improvement of water balance
Stabilization of ecosystem
Transeuropian waterway
Ecological transport
Source and regulator of electric energy
Economy
Increasing employment
Source of income from tourism
Agriculture
Sport a recreation
Development of seats
Europian investment
Critical nodal point by the Hodonín. During dry periods the whole discharge is
led through a branch canal to the steam power plant. Rest of the water is used
for irrigation and water power plant stops working at all.
Costs of the Project
• The whole water corridor D-O-E
Danube-Kozle-Pardubice … cca 510 km
8 880 600 000 €
public funds of the countries on the waterway
European Union funds
bank loans
bonds
direct implementation of project
Revenues
Even at extremely pessimistic assumptions, the value of IRR
exceeds 10 %, i.e. higher than the level of 6 % that is deemed to
be an admissible minimum at infrastructure investments. At
optimistic assumptions it ranges around 20 %. It is therefore
possible to say, without any overstatement, that a similar favourable
effectiveness is demonstrated at few investments in the area of
infrastructure.
8 years after putting the first stage into operation, the value of the
balance starts to be positive and after next 5 years all of the costs
spent until then will have been paid back.
Here, it is really possible to talk about effectiveness indicators
attained only in a very few infrastructure projects.
Water corridor D-O-E in present time
Traffic load in western part of the Europe reach the critical values
and has bad influence to transport capacity and environment.
Czech Republic is situated in the centre of the Europe, on the
commodity flow between N-W industrial producing centre and S-E
consumption centre including India and China.
Economical potencial is moving from Western Europe to Middle and
Eastern Europe. This development would be faster than constructing
of higher transport capacity in new EU members.
Water corridor Danube-Oder-Elbe is high-quality offer how to
improve european transport corridors with using combine transport
and other benefits.
Special governmental commission revaluated land protection of the
corridor D-O-E in urban plans with positive result!
Intergovernmental consultations are in progress in this time.
Plánované vodní dílo na Labi -Děčín
Ing. Jan Kareis, Ph.D.
www.vodnicesty.cz