DaHar – Danube Inland Harbour Development

DaHar

The DaHar partnership represents small and medium sized Danube cities with ports of international importance. The economic development and participation in the economic circulation of these cities could be enhanced through the optimal utilisation of port development in the frame of enhancing waterway cargo transport on the Danube in a transnational context. To this end, DaHar partners wish to utilise the logistical and multi-modal development capacities of their ports and port areas, develop their ports in a harmonised manner. This way, small and medium sized cities will find their position in the development of waterway cargo transport, which results in the specification and diversification of their logistical and multi-modal functions in a logistical network of Danube cities and ports.

The main activities include a careful analysis of the State of the Art related to multi-modal cargo transport development, an intensive exchange of other partners’ expertise in formulating the development potentials of individual ports (deep dive process), synthesising the accumulated knowledge in the form of a Master Class with stakeholder participation, drawing up an integrated strategy for the functional specialisation of ports in the logistic chain and developing concrete action plans for individual ports based on the common strategy. This strategy building will be supported by a (pro)active consensus building process to ensure the appropriate uptake of stakeholders inputs in the delivery of project outcomes.

DaHar will result in port cities with improved capacity, and also improved policies related to logistical and multi-modal port development. It makes an important contribution to the functional specialisation of ports of small and medium sized cities in the transport logistical change, thus filling the gap between the functions and roles of these cities and those of large multi-modal hubs.

Partnership:

The project is planned to be implemented with the participation of 11 partners from 6 SEE countries and also with the support of 12 Associated Strategic Partners:

Financing Partners:

• Municipality of Dunaújváros, Lead Partner – Hungary
• National Company Administration of Danube River Ports J.S.Co. Giurgiu – Romania
• Municipality of Galati, Romania
• Maritime Danube Ports Administration – Romania
• Ennshafen OÖ GmbH – Austria
• Municipality of Vidin – Bulgaria
• Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research, Institute of Logistics and Production Systems – Hungary
• Public Ports Plc. – Slovakia
• Municipality of Silistra – Bulgaria
• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences – Serbia
• Port of Novi Sad – Serbia

Associated Strategic Partners:

• via donau - Austrian Waterway Company – Austria
• Municipality of Giurgiu – Romania
• City of Vukovar – Croatia
• Danube Commission – Hungary
• Port of Vukovar Ltd – Croatia
• European Federation of Inland Ports – Belgium
• Hungarian National Shipping Federation (MAHOSZ) – Hungary
• Ministry for Transport, Posts and Telecommunication – Slovakia
• Republic of Serbia, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina - Provincial Secretariat of Economy – Serbia
• Ministry for National Economy – Hungary
• Regional Administration of Vidin Region – Bulgaria
• ISD DUNAFERR Danube Ironworks Private Company Limited by Shares – Hungary

Budget: The project is under evaluation. It was submitted to the South East Europe programme in September 2010. The expected total budget is € 1 966 100, to be financed through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and, in the case of the Serbian partners, the Instrument for Pre-Accession assistance (IPA).

Expected duration: April 2011 – March 2014

Our assignment: participation in the development of project application as subcontractor of HBH Euroconsulting.