W&H Senior Consultant Wulfram Overmann opened the thematic session ‘High & heavy cargo on the Danube: Chances & challenges’ at the international business forum ‘Danube logistics meets growing markets’ held in the Port of Straubing-Sand on 20 March 2019. The co-author presented the results of the study ‘High & Heavy utilising Inland Navigation — Potential Analysis for East Bavaria’ prepared by WAGENER & HERBST in 2017.
The study identified considerable potential of shifting oversized and heavy load transports, that currently mostly run on roads, to inland navigation. The potential should be realised in cooperation between cargo owners, inland ports, inland shippers and specialised service providers as well as permitting administrations.