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INTRASEA is an Interreg IIIB project with 28 partners in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania and the Russian Federation. |
 
Baltic Sea Region Inland Waterways Vision 2020 The seminar will take place in Helsinki, Finland at Kansallissali. We are welcoming the participants to visit Suomenlinna, Finland’ s treasured historical Island Fortress in the Helsinki archipelago in connection to the Seminar and to visit the Arctic Research Centre, where a variety of different ice conditions are modelled. A detailed program will be published on the intrasea website soon. Program Friday 3 December
WP2 has progressed into a phase, in which the basis for Baltic Sea Regional and Intersectorial vision for 2020 has been written. The aim is to inform about it for the parties concerned and an input to further develop it is highly valued. The comments about the preliminary vision should be addressed to the WP2 leader, Mr Pulkkanen, pulkkanen@vesitiet.org. For a basis of the vision there has been studies made within the work package regarding different countries regional dependence on inland waterways The analyses are based on trade and statistical studies together with bottleneck identification. Also the development discussions about sustainable strategies to meet the vision have been commenced. Studies on spatial planning regarding inland waterways are to be listed and the methods for assessing the influence on waterways on regional development are on progress.
WP 1 - Infrastructure Our WP meeting number two was held in Gothenburg on 21 and 22 September. It was agreed that all updating of the database should be completed by the end of December this year. The INLATRANS database will then be renamed the INTRASEA database. After a bumpy start the mission is now on “full speed ahead”. To enable long term use of the database without having to establish an updating organisation it has been agreed that web site links should be used as much as possible. The project group recognizes that e.g. pleasure boat harbours are continually updating their information or at least once a year prior to each season. By linking their web sites to the INTRASEA database, the INTRASEA data base will be kept up to date nearly at all times. The WP has identified a number of items on a wish list to make the database more user friendly. Whether it will be possible during this project to fulfil those wishes or not will be clarified later on. Rolf
B. Bertilson/chairman of WP 1 |
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INTRASEA
National Paper
Each project country in the INTRASEA project has published a National Paper where you can read more about the inland waterways in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the Russian Federation and Lithuania. The national papers are published under the headline Info Material on the INTRASEA web-site .
WP 3 - Modal shift and river sea transport The WP3 working group has investigated the theoretical capacity of the inland waterway relation Berlin-Szeczin. Now it is possible to calculate the modal shift for this relation. The used model is adjustable to all other inland waterway relations. The next meeting of the working group is on 14th of october inEberswalde, Germany. The meeting is connected with an inspection of the HWO and HOFRIWA by a boat, supported by the Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt Eberswalde (WSA). Environmental effects through water way constructions and shore stabilization is one focus of the next working period. Further information: axel.schonknecht@tuhh.de
WP 4 - Justification of investments in Inland Waterway Infrastructure The first vessels that sailed on Trollhätte canal to Lake Vänern were of 140 ton in size. Today the canal has a capacity of 4 000 tdw ships. The waterway system has still a potential. The inland waterway infrastructure is mainly old in the Baltic Sea Region. The major efforts in investments were made in the beginning of the 1900. At that time the sea was the solution to transport heavy cargo. Heavy in this respect is more than a ton or two. The investments made at that time are still very impressive. The dimension of the river-sea in the north is stil functional. In the project Germany, Finland, Russia and Poland will study how to justify the investment in the expensive canal infrastructure that may be the future relieve of the traffic congestion in Europe. Methods and systems of socioeconomic models for calculating the justification will be produced and tested on a few topical canal investments.
WP 5 hade their first meeting in Gdynia at the end of June and the upfollowing meeting in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The main activities carried out within the project have been the collection of information on existing main tourist inland waterways and to make a general market outlook. 90% of the turnover created by tourism related to inland waterways is land-tourism; canals and water-ways serve as an attraction and path of orientation for this kind of tourism.
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