Workshop « Low water and effects on Rhine navigation » (2023)
Documents
- Reflection paper “Act now!” on low water and effects on Rhine navigation (Edition 3.0 of 27 October 2023)
Press release
- Low water conditions on the Rhine: high quality discussions and contributions at the CCNR workshop
Programme
Presentations
- 2022 low water period and the “Act Now” reflection paper
Kai Kempmann, Laure Roux, CCNR Secretariat - Initiatives and projects reported in the “Act Now” reflection paper
Markus Grewe, Chair of IEN, German delegation of the CCNR - Point of view of vessel operators
Theresia Hacksteiner, IWT Platform - Point of view of the shippers
Kathrin Hülswitt, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe - Climate change impacts on low water. How to be best prepared and how to counteract low waters?
First messages from the 6th IPCC report for Europe
Judith ter Maat, International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin (CHR) - Economic damage of drought for inland shipping in Flander
Niels Van Steenbergen, Belgian delegation of the CCNR - Information products for climate adaptation of inland waterways - from science to service
Enno Nilson, German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) - The Novimove project and foreseen solutions to cope with varying water levels
Felix Harder, Port of Switzerland - Benjamin Friedhoff, DST - Point of view of the industry
Benoit Blank, BASF - Point of view of logistics
Thomas Maassen, Rhenus logistics
Documents related to the workshop “Low water and effects on Rhine navigation” organized in 2019 are available here.