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Specifics of the Danube Fleet Management (Trends and Perspectives for Development)

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In the last years the main objective of most of the European strategic documents concerns establishment of sustainable and competitive transport system while promoting the development of secure, safe, reliable, energy effective and environmentally friendly transport modes such as inland waterway transport. The free capacity of European inland waterways provides opportunities for transportation with no traffic jams in the living areas; oversized and bulk cargoes, less green house gas emissions, compared to the road transport. Thanks to the development of the information and communication technologies (ICT) much more innovative vessels, which are economically efficient and environmentally friendly are used. Improving the technical specifications of Danube river fleet is of great importance for the development of the transport sector in the separate countries in the region. This fact is also proved by the growth rate of the inland waterway modal split during the last 5 years in the West-European countries such as Germany (12.6%), France (4.3%), United Kingdom (13.4%), Austria (5.1%), the Netherlands (39.1%) (EUROSTAT, 2016) compared to the road and rail transport.In this regard the main objective of the current study is to analyze, as an example of Bulgaria, the development trends of Danube river fleet and as a result the specifics of its management will be revealed. The following economic indicators are analyzed: Danube fleet performance, number and capacity of vessels, coefficient of capacity usage and average stay of ships at ports for handling activities. These indicators allow the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the threats and opportunities of river fleet to be assessed and also measures for its development to be proposed. The proposed model for analysis could be successfully used for studying the specifics of river fleet of other countries with transitional economies.

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  • Petya Koralova, 2017. "Specifics of the Danube Fleet Management (Trends and Perspectives for Development)," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 118-152.
    • Handle: RePEc:bas:econst:y:2017:i:6:p:118-152
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    1. N. Calderón-Rivera & I. Bartusevičienė & F. Ballini, 2024. "Sustainable development of inland waterways transport: a review," Journal of Shipping and Trade, Springer, vol. 9(1), pages 1-22, December.

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    • R49 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Other
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