on inland waterways. They concern the vessel, the crew, as well as the shipping lane. The more information the captain has about the current navigational conditions on the shipping lane, the safer and more efficient the journey of the vessel or convoy under their command will be. Navigational information is provided to users by the waterway administration and inland navigation administration in descriptive and graphic form, as well as in the form of radio messages. The general development of advanced information and telecommunications technologies has also encompassed inland water transport. The challenge facing the inland water transport sector was to integrate various newly created local, regional, and national river information systems and services into a single common European operational concept.(…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 6/2011