Inland Navigation Europe has as mission to contribute to long-term strategies for sustainable transportation by moving more goods by water in EU regions and cities with accessible and navigable rivers and canals. INE does this by sharing best practice, active policy advocacy and promotion.

Our priorities

• More maritime hinterland and continental flows by waterway transport
• Iimprovement of the entire infrastructure system for waterborne logistics
• Iincreased environment/safety performance of infrastructure & fleet
• Reduction of red tape and creation of level playing field
• Enhanced information to foster awareness & cooperation

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Just a few of our achievements

• A dedicated EU waterway transport action plan: Naiades
• Two large waterway projects in priority list of TEN
• Increased TEN-T co-financing for waterway cross-border projects
• Appointment of EU waterway coordinator
• Harmonised cross-border RIS deployment via framework directive
• EU co-financing budget for RIS deployment
• Better access to EU Marco Polo programme for inland shipping
• Low-sulphur fuel for waterway vessels