Nautilus welcomes TEN-T agreement
Nautilus has welcomed an agreement between the European Commission, Council and Parliament to form a unified transport network (TEN-T).
The agreement will establish a single transport network across Europe filling in cross-border missing links, removing bottlenecks and making the network ‘smarter’.
‘This project will be very important for inland waterways transport workers across Europe,’ said Mr Nick Bramley, Nautilus International senior national secretary for Switzerland, and chair of the ETF Inland Waterways Section.
‘Although the inland waterways are a really good way to transport bulk goods, some of the river ports are not very well equipped or state of the art.
‘If we want the European waterways to be properly utilised we need to ensure that containerships visiting ports can link up with other transportation networks to continue their journeys.’
‘This is a historic agreement to create a powerful European transport network across 28 Member States,’ added Siim Kallas, European Commission vice president responsible for transport. ‘Transport is vital to the European economy, without good connections Europe will not grow or prosper. This agreement will connect east with west and replace today’s transport patchwork with a network that is genuinely European. This is a major step towards building a new transport network that will be the backbone to boost growth and competitiveness in Europe’s Single Market.’
Source: Nautilus International
