Federal Association of Public Inland Ports and Association for European Inland Navigation and Waterways visit DST
The members of the joint expert committee ‚Economy and Logistics‘ of Federal Association of Public Inland Ports (BÖB) and the Association for European Inland Navigation and Waterways (VBW) have visited DST and HaFoLa in Duisburg.
„JRF on site“ event Urban supply via waterway
On 28 March 2022, the online event ‚Urban supply via the waterway‘ took place as part of the event series ‚JRF on site‘. It was also designed as the final event of the research project ‚DeConTrans – Innovative concepts for a decentralized waterborne container transport‘ with the participation of both DST and RIF, two of the JRF member institutes.
Innovation Award for Flex-Tunnel goes to Joachim Zöllner and Steffen Augspurger
For the fifth time, Allianz Esa has awarded the »Inland Shipping Innovation Prize« at the »Forum Binnenschifffahrt«. This year the prize went to the shipowner Steffen Augspurger and the scientist Joachim Zöllner (DST) for their jointly developed Flex-tunnel. Klaus Krahnke, Head of Market Management at Allianz Esa, honored in his laudatory speech that Augspurger, Managing […]
Extensive model tests completed within the Interreg-project MariGreen
Within the research project MariGreen, DST successfully completed extensive model tests.
The new Secretary General of CCNR Bruno Georges visited Duisburg
On his 24 April 2017 visit to Duisburg the new Secretary General of CCNR Bruno Georges, who replaced Hans van der Werf in November 2016, was able to see for himself, which role an inland shipping simulator can play within education and training.
LNG-PILOTS project has been launched
Within the scope of an international kick-off event in Papenburg the Interreg VA project ‘LNG pilots’ has started on 18th November 2016. Under the leadership of Energy Valley (Groningen) about 35 partners from North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and the Netherlands have joined forces to promote the introduction of LNG as an alternative fuel in freight […]
The DST advises the Inland Waterways Authority of India in inland navigation development
On behalf of IWAI (Inland Waterways Authority of India) the DST will design new inland waterway ship types to develop inland navigation on the „National Waterway 1“ (Ganges-Bhagirathi-Hooghly) in order to shift freight transport from road and rail to the water.
Federal Minister of Transport Dobrindt experienced inland navigation first-hand
At the invitation of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt (Federal Association of the German Inland Shipping) Transport Minister Dobrindt visited Duisburg on 12 July to get an updated impression of the situation within the inland navigation sector
The research project „E-Binnenschiff“ got underway with a kick-off meeting
With a kick-off event all partners involved started the research project „E-Binnenschiff“ on 7 July 2016 at the DST.
