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原文传递 THE LINK BETWEEN THE CZECH REPUBLIC WATERWAYS AND THE EUROPEAN WATERWAY NETWORK

题名：	THE LINK BETWEEN THE CZECH REPUBLIC WATERWAYS AND THE EUROPEAN WATERWAY NETWORK
作者：	Pavel KUTALEK; Pavel GABRIEL; Dana LIDLOVA; Miroslav SOUREK; Jiri CUBA
关键词：	THE CZECH REPUBLIC WATERWAYS; THE EUROPEAN WATERWAY NETWORK
摘要：	The Czech Republic, due to its central geographical position in Europe, has been a crossroad of trade routes of significant importance since the ancient times. The Czech and Moravian rivers, gradually trained to be suitable for transportation of goods and people, played an essential role in the development of economical and social life, trading, industry and agriculture of the central Europe. The rivers also became the natural link of the area with the rest of the European seaports and the world. The river transportation of the first half of the 20th Century was marked by a gradual development of the Labe-Vltava waterway for ships of up to 1200t displacement. This has resulted in a quality shipping transportation between Prague and other cities of the Czech Republic, the seaport at Hamburg and the Northern See, the route by which more than 3 million tons of goods were transported each year. The Pan-European conference of transport ministers, held in Helsinki in 1997, resulted in the so-called AGN-Agreement. One of its proposals, having the major impact on the central European water transportation, concerns the Inter-European water highways E20 and E30 connection to the river systems in the Czech Republic. Further extension of the Labe-Vltava waterway by making rivers Morava and Odra navigable, and the introduction of the Dunaj-Odra-Labe shipping link would mean that the whole Morava river basin could be connected to the integrated European waterway network, stretching from Rotterdam, Nice and Basil up to Constantia, Izmail and Kijev. Catastrophic flooding of the northern Moravia, Poland and parts of Germany in 1997 resulted in the untold hardship to people and destruction of property. It was realised that should the proposed waterway be operational at the time, the flood damages would be greatly reduced. Apart of the water transportation having the smallest negative impact on the environment, the waterway systems will feature flood control and generate better quality of life for people of the whole region. Studies of the proposed Dunaj-Odra-Labe waterway showed that its traffic intensity would be comparable to that of the busy Rhine-Mohan-Dunaj system. Although the economy of the present times Central Europe is being re-structured and the heavy industry doesn’t play such an important role it used to have, one should expect a substantial increase in transportation of electronic equipment and other consumer goods throughout Europe.
总页数：	Proceedings of the 30th PIANC-AIPCN Congress. Sydney Australia. 22-26 Sept. 2002. pp15
报告类型：	科技报告