Inland navigation — the topic of the 5th Lindstedt Talks

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On June 18, 2014, the Lindstedt Talks took place for the fifth time in the Lindstedt Palace in Potsdam. The event was again or­ga­nis­ed by WAGENER & HERBST on be­half of the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture (MIL).

The to­pic “Future pro­s­pects for the Brandenburg in­land wa­ter­ways in Trans-European net­works” at­trac­ted a gre­at deal of in­te­rest among the par­ti­ci­pa­ting re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ves from in­dus­try and politics.

Horst Stiegler, mem­ber of the board of di­rec­tors of the lo­gi­stics net­work Berlin-Brandenburg, mo­de­ra­ted the event which was ope­ned by Egbert Neumann, Department Head Transportation MIL, stan­ding in for Transport Minister Jörg Vogelsänger, who could not at­tend be­cau­se of sche­du­ling con­flicts. His in­iti­al state­ment de­scri­bed the cu­rent si­tua­ti­on, ob­jec­ti­ves and plans re­gar­ding in­land na­vi­ga­ti­on from the point of view of Brandenburg’s government.

The th­ree state­ments by Martin Bock, Managing Director of Fürstenwalder Futtermittel-Getreide-Landhandel GmbH & Co. KG (AGRAVIS Group); Heinrich Ahlers, Chairman of the Management Board of Bussport Logistics GmbH & Co. KG and Dr. Dietmar Rehmann, Head of the Hamburg branch of HTAG Häfen und Transport AG, Duisburg; show­ed that the po­si­ti­ve de­ve­lo­p­ment of  ElbePort Wittenberge and HavelPort in Wustermark pro­ve the po­ten­ti­al of in­land na­vi­ga­ti­on in Brandenburg. The de­ve­lo­p­ment of in­land na­vi­ga­ti­on in the ca­pi­tal re­gi­on is, ho­we­ver, se­ver­ely ham­pe­red, in par­ti­cu­lar, by the com­ple­te­ly ina­de­qua­te, mo­re than 100 ye­ars old locks in Kleinmachnow and Fürstenwalde. Because of the lock-in­du­ced bot­t­len­ecks, ne­ga­ti­ve in­vest­ment de­cis­i­ons have al­re­a­dy be­en ma­de by ship­pers. The crea­ti­on of plan­ning and in­vest­ment se­cu­ri­ty wi­th re­gard to the up­grading of the­se locks is in­dis­pensable for the eco­no­mic fu­ture of who­le regions.

The sub­se­quent dis­cus­sion, which was very li­vely wi­th the par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on of lo­cal po­li­ti­ci­ans and par­lia­men­ta­ri­ans, ma­de it clear that a coor­di­na­ted po­si­tio­ning of af­fec­ted and in­te­res­ted freight for­war­ders, lo­gi­stics com­pa­nies, eco­no­mic as­so­cia­ti­ons as well as mu­ni­ci­pal and sta­te po­li­ti­ci­ans is ne­ces­sa­ry and de­si­red. The com­mon in­te­rests are to be re­pre­sen­ted even mo­re em­pha­ti­cal­ly against the Federal le­vel, which is re­spon­si­ble for most of the re­le­vant in­land wa­ter­way in­fra­struc­tu­re, so that in­land wa­ter­way trans­port as an en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly fri­end­ly and eco­no­mic trans­port sec­tor can make even grea­ter con­tri­bu­ti­ons to eco­no­mic and en­vi­ron­men­tal ef­fi­ci­en­cy in Brandenburg.

The fol­lo­wing pre­sen­ta­ti­ons are available for down­load:

Neumann_MIL_Lindstedt_20140618.pdf (2,1 MB) 

Ahlers_Buss_Lindstedt_20140618.pdf (1,0 MB) 

Rehmann_HTAG_Lindstedt_20140618.pdf (0,8 MB) 

Inland na­vi­ga­ti­on — the to­pic of the 5th Lindstedt Talks
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