Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company updates on Interreg Danube projects progress

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 - The Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company (BIP Co.) has held a meeting to present progress on the projects Regional and Transport Development in the Danube-Black Sea Region towards a Transnational Multiport Gateway Region (DBS Gateway Region) and Danube Ports Network (DAPhNE). During the meeting the two management teams presented and discussed, the objectives, activities and expected results of the implementation of the two projects were discussed. Work Package 4 Administration and Management under the DAPhNE project, where BPI Co. is a coordinator, and Analysis of the Potential of the Danube and Black Sea Region, prepared by BPI Co. within the DBS Gateway Region project were presented. The most important recommendation, based on the analysis prepared, is to maintain and guarantee minimum levels of the Danube River fairway. A number of common objectives link the DBS Gateway Region and the DAPhNE projects, co-funded by the 2014-2020 Transnational Cooperation Programme: a more sustainable transport system, an improved business environment, and attracting new business partner and cargoes to and from the region on the Danube River. Both projects have set the ambitions task for the aging infrastructure and inefficient intermodal services that limit the potential of the water transport, to remain in the past. DBS Gateway Region project aims at supporting the Danube-Black Sea region to become an attractive gateway region for maritime and inland waterway transport between Central Europe and the Black Sea, the Caspian region and the Far East by facilitating the cooperation within and with the region and its actors. The joint effort shall improve accessibility of both the ports and the regions and strengthen interoperability between maritime and inland waterways as well as with their hinterland. Together with raising the awareness of the possibilities of intermodal transport, this will lead to shifting existing and attracting new cargo flows to environmentally friendly transport systems. At present, aging infrastructure and inefficient, non-transparent intermodal services limit the potential of the water transport system. The project is built upon the belief that the cooperation of public authorities, ports and their related associations is the key success factor in order to raise quality, reliability and efficiency of the waterway transport system. The Danube Ports Network (DAPhNE) aims to facilitate a balanced development of Danube Ports as eco-friendly, well accessible multimodal hubs for the transport system of the region and to turn them into buzzing economic centres functioning as catalysts for economic growth and creation of high value jobs. To achieve this goal, a permanent cooperation will be secured between public & private entities along the Danube, each of them bringing in their own specific expertise. These entities are: ministries, port administrations, port users, specialized consultancy firms, logistics companies, NGOs and universities. With the DBS Gateway Region project realization will be drawn up specific guidelines, based on which regional action plans including proposals for specific infrastructures projects will be prepared, and the Danube ports network built under the project DAPhNE will enable the ports to reach their full potential as buzzing economic centres. Both projects are part of the Danube Transnational Programme which is a financing instrument of the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC), better known as Interreg. ETC is one of the goals of the European Union cohesion policy and provides a framework for the implementation of joint actions and policy exchanges between national, regional and local actors from different Member States. The Danube Transnational Programme (DTP) gathers one of the highest numbers of participating countries among all the Interreg programmes: nine EU countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany - Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria-, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia) and 5 non-EU countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine - four provinces: Chernivetska Oblast, Ivano-Frankiviska Oblast, Zakarpatska Oblast and Odessa Oblast). Source: Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company Copyright (C) Ports Europe. All Rights Reserved. 2017.

Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company updates on Interreg Danube projects progress

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