Establishment of the Hungarian IWT Promotion Centre

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This action shall, in line with the requirements and regulations of the European Union, target to support the related governmental organisations and bodies to improve domestic inland waterway traffic as a way of modality, to manage, with a certain project aspect, all tasks that are related to inland waterway traffic (such as management, promotion, education and training, operational issues and other professional queries), and to aid domestic market participants to become adequately competitive. The action shall consider the following mission statements: • "Enhancement of the role and the competitiveness of Hungarian inland waterway transportation" and • "Integration of Hungarian inland waterway transportation into the European transportation network". Need and added value for Danube Region Strategy: The NAIADES action programme of the EU claims the need for a network of national promotion and development centres to improve inland waterway traffic. At the moment such organization doesn’t exist in Hungary. In order to fulfil this pronounced need, the aim of this project proposal is to work out the establishment of the Hungarian IWT promotion centre, which would do for the following four general fields: 1. Navigability of the Danube 2. River Information Services 3. Management of the major national ports 4. Tracking of the developments programs of the EU, utilization in the national deployments for the benefit of transport users at local level and encourage them to use inland navigation

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