Thanks to its environmental compatibility, safety and efficiency, inland navigation has become a highly attractive mode of transport, whose increased use is also in line with EU transport and environmental policy targets.

The most environmentally compatible mode of transport, inland navigation requires less specific energy, less investment in infrastructure maintenance and improvement as well as less external costs than any means of road or rail transport.

When it comes to safety, inland navigation incurs lower accident costs than any other mode of transport. What is more, navigation has proven to be considerably more efficient thanks to a significantly lower energy input and consumption as well as an impressive mass transport capacity.

via donau participates in numerous projects to still improve these strengths. It puts, for example, a lot of effort into further reducing ships' emission level of harmful substances with the overall target being to develop a comprehensive and internationally accepted collection system for ship waste.