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EU inland waterway freight transport declined by 3% in 2025 (Eurostat)
Freight transport on EU inland waterways reached 118 billion tonne-kilometres in 2025, a decrease of 3% compared with the previous year, according to figures published by Eurostat on 29 July....
Latest EU transport figures underline the modal-shift challenge for IWT
A new European Commission report shows that road still dominates inland freight transport. The figures reinforce the need to turn the EU's modal-shift objective into practical investment and implementation. The European Commission published a...
Updated ISGINTT guide for tank-barge operations
The International Safety Guide for Inland Navigation Tank-barges and Terminals has been updated and released in five languages, giving crews, operators and terminals a shared source of practical safety guidance. The Central...
Changing of the guard at ESO and EBU, EUIWTP Founding Organistions
June 2026 marks an important moment for European inland waterway transport representation. Both founding organisations of the European Inland Waterway Transport Platform, the European Skippers’ Organisation (ESO) and the European...
General Interest
EU inland waterway freight transport declined by 3% in 2025 (Eurostat)
Freight transport on EU inland waterways reached 118 billion tonne-kilometres in 2025, a decrease of 3% compared with the previous year, according to figures published by Eurostat on 29 July....
Latest EU transport figures underline the modal-shift challenge for IWT
A new European Commission report shows that road still dominates inland freight transport. The figures reinforce the need to turn the EU's modal-shift objective into practical investment and implementation. The European Commission published a...
Updated ISGINTT guide for tank-barge operations
The International Safety Guide for Inland Navigation Tank-barges and Terminals has been updated and released in five languages, giving crews, operators and terminals a shared source of practical safety guidance. The Central...
Serbian IWT qualifications gain European Union recognition
The European Commission has adopted Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1179, granting European Union recognition to qualification certificates, service record books and logbooks issued by Serbia in inland waterway transport (IWT). The decision...
Innovation and Greening
Annual Report 2025 | European IWT Platform
Annual Report 2025 The European Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) Platform’s 2025 Annual Report provides an overview of the Platform’s activities and key developments shaping the inland waterway transport sector over...
Launch of the DiVINE project website
The European Inland Waterway Transport Platform is pleased to announce the launch of the official DiVINE project website — a new digital hub supporting the implementation of the Digitalisation Vision...
DiVINE holds its First Co-Creation Workshop to Advance Stakeholder Mapping for the IWT Digitalisation Vision
On 25 November, the DiVINE consortium hosted its first Co-Creation Workshop, bringing together project partners and members of the Advisory Board to support the development of a comprehensive stakeholder mapping...
PRESS RELEASE – DiVINE Project kicks off: implementing the digitalisation vision for inland waterway transport in Europe
PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 5 November 2025 The DiVINE (Digitalisation Vision Inland Navigation Europe) project officially kicked off on 3rd October 2025, representing a new step forward in the European Commission’s...
Social and Education
Serbian IWT qualifications gain European Union recognition
The European Commission has adopted Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1179, granting European Union recognition to qualification certificates, service record books and logbooks issued by Serbia in inland waterway transport (IWT). The decision...
Annual Report 2025 | European IWT Platform
Annual Report 2025 The European Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) Platform’s 2025 Annual Report provides an overview of the Platform’s activities and key developments shaping the inland waterway transport sector over...
CESNI meetings February 2026: updates on qualifications, crewing and e-tools
The European IWT Platform took part in the CESNI meetings held between 2 and 5 February 2026, represented by EBU and the ESO Secretaries of the EU IWTP Social and...
European IWT Platform Participates at the CESNI/QP Week in Strasbourg (3–6 November)
From 3 to 6 November, the CESNI/QP week took place in Strasbourg, with the Social and Education Committee of the European IWT Platform represented by Henriëtte Schreuders and Gerit Fietze....
Nautical and Technical Aspects
CESNI/PT WG June 2026: safety, emissions and crew standards on the Agenda
The IWT Platform took part in the June 2026 meeting of the CESNI Working Group on Technical Requirements, where several dossiers of direct relevance to the inland waterway transport sector...
Feedback from CESNI/PT Working Group meeting – 22-23 February 2022
Our Secretary of the Nautical and Technical Committee, Ms Lijdia Pater – de Groot, prepared a lengthy debrief from a recent meeting of the Working Group on Technical requirements (CESNI-PT)...
Experience with the use of shore power connections – a presentation from the “Shore power at berths” Workshop
Earlier in February 2022, the CCNR organised a full-day workshop on “Shore power at berths”. Leny van Toorenburg, our Secretary of the Nautical/Technical and Infrastructure Committees, has outlined the experience...
CCNR and viadonau Workshop on Shore Power at Berths – 3 February 2022
Please register via the following link by using the password: CCNR2022workshop – click HERE! View the full agenda – click HERE! Zero-emissions inland navigation sector by 2050: this target for...
Policy and Regulation
Latest EU transport figures underline the modal-shift challenge for IWT
A new European Commission report shows that road still dominates inland freight transport. The figures reinforce the need to turn the EU's modal-shift objective into practical investment and implementation. The European Commission published a...
EUIWTP represented at ICPR Plenary Meeting
On 16 June 2026, the EUIWTP was represented by Geert Snoeij, Secretary of the EUIWTP Infrastructure Committee, at the Plenary Meeting of the International Commission for the Protection of the...
Serbian IWT qualifications gain European Union recognition
The European Commission has adopted Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1179, granting European Union recognition to qualification certificates, service record books and logbooks issued by Serbia in inland waterway transport (IWT). The decision...
Annual Report 2025 | European IWT Platform
Annual Report 2025 The European Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) Platform’s 2025 Annual Report provides an overview of the Platform’s activities and key developments shaping the inland waterway transport sector over...