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2013 – Belarus, Inland waterways, Feasibility study on the development of the water transport connection Dniepr-Visla-Oder (E40)

Created Nov 06 2017, 4:12 PM by Leszek Tymoteusz Zemke
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2013 – Belarus, Inland waterways, Feasibility study on the development of the water transport connection Dniepr-Visla-Oder (E40)
Inland waterways Project - The proposed intervention covers the Belarusian section of the E40 waterway.

Demand estimation from IDEA II-EaP transport model year 2030
Freight: 9.000 tonnes/day
Technical description

By Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of 28.02.2008 № 133 the Republic of Belarus acceded to the European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of International Importance, which is considered as a coordinated plan for the development and construction of a network of inland waterways of international importance, which also include the Belarusian section of the waterway E40 (river Visla from Gdansk to Warsaw-Bres-Pinsk-river Dniepr through Kiev to Kherson).

Currently, a number of facilities of Dniepr-Bug Channel that is a part of E40 waterway connections has considerable deterioration and does not meet current requirements of environmental safety. In this connection, the reconstruction of hydraulic facilities of the Dnieper-Bug Channel is carried out in Belarus. Currently 5 shipping gateways has been renovated (Novosady, Duboy, Kobrin, Trishin, Zaluz'e (commissioned in 2015), allowing the passage of vessels with length of 110 m, width 12 m and with a draft of 2.2 m.
Shipping gateway “Zaluz’e” before and after the reconstruction.

Shipping gateaway.png

Channel reconstruction is continuing and in 2015 the reconstruction of the shipping gateway "Ragodosch" has started.

Investment amount
0.9 mln EUR

 

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