GRENDEL Green and efficient Danube Fleet

The three funded fleet operators of the project (NAVROM in cooperation with SDG, FLUVIUS, DANUBIA) were involved in the development of innovative and greening inland vessel concepts, participating to the creation of best practises, with the...

Improving the environmental and economic performance of the Danube inland vessels is the overall goal of the GRENDEL project. It aims to achieve a higher acceptance and use of inland waterway transport as an environmentally friendly transport...

GRENDEL represents a vital step forward in the more than challenging modernisation process of the Danube fleet. The achievements of the project went far beyond identifying the most challenges IWT is facing in terms of low technological...

    Fleet modernisation and technological innovation were key elements that defined the last 30 months of fruitful collaboration in the framework of the GRENDEL project. GRENDEL's final online event was attended by more than 80...

  The Final Event of the GRENDEL project takes place on 29 October 2020 as an online event organised by Pro Danube. The event will allow to have an overview on the most important achievements of the project which is ending in November...

  The core objective of the 3rd GRENDEL Public Consultation organised on 30 September 2020 by the Danube Commission was to discuss on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Danube IWT with public and private stakeholders and relevant...

Following the success story of the previous edition organised in March 2019, this year's Know-How Transfer Event for the Modernisation of the Danube Fleet brought together representatives of the European Commission, international...

Besides environmental & economic performance, Danube IWT needs improved IT based logistics processes for full integration into managed logistics chains of industry. GRENDEL analysed requirements and logistics processes of representative fleet...

An IWT Innovative Technologies Database was released in the framework of GRENDEL and is accessible from the GRENDEL website and from the EIBIP Innovation Radar. The aim of the Innovative Technological Database is to centrally collect valuable...

As one of the main objectives of the GRENDEL project is to raise the environmental performance of Danube inland vessels and to fully integrate them in the transnational transport and logistics chains, several factsheets providing basic...

The second Know-how transfer event on the modernisation of Danube vessels will take place on 29 September 2020 (originally planned on 01 April 2020) and will be organised by the Danube Commission in Budapest. The core objective of the event...

The GRENDEL project consortium, INDanube and representatives of Danube countries work together on the elaboration of a state aid model programme promoting sustainable modernisation of inland waterway vessels in the Danube region. A first...

As one of the main objectives of the GRENDEL project is to raise the environmental performance of Danube inland vessels and to fully integrate them in the transnational transport and logistics chains, several factsheets providing basic...

The 4th GRENDEL Consortium Meeting was organised together with the 4th Work Package & Activity Leaders Meeting and with the 4th Steering Committee Meeting on 31st March 2020 (virtually due to the current Corona crisis), gathering 19...

Do you want to be in the frontline of defining strategies, policies and R&D investment priorities that pave the way towards zero-emission waterborne transport? Applications to join the Green Shipping Expert Group and Scientific Committee of...

Now that the inland navigation sector has to comply with the same emission standards as the industrial and agricultural sectors, transport over inland waterways is taking a big step forward. After four years of developing, the...

Hosted by the Danube Commission in Budapest on 1 April, the core objective of the event organised in the framework of the GRENDEL project in cooperation with the innovation centre INDanube, is to provide a platform for knowledge-transfer and...

Attended by experts of the European Commission (DG MOVE and DG COMP), the Danube Commission as well as national public and private entities, the core objective of the second public consultation organised in the framework of the GRENDEL project...

Organised at the premises of the Danube Commission on 22 January 2020, the main objective of the second public consultation is to discuss the current development status of the model State Aid Scheme and to further develop innovative financial...

The event "Galati Naval Architecture Conference" organised by the Faculty of Naval Architecture from University of Galati has taken place on 21st – 23rd November (programme available here). Many members of the international naval architects...