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Inland waterway transport plays also an important role in Europe today, and shifting more freight transport to water is considered a significant option to improve Europe’s transport system as a whole and to deal with constantly growing freight flows. Inland navigation is seen as an environmentally friendly transport mode with compared to other inland transport modes a relative low CO₂ emission.

More than 37 000 kilometres of  inlandwaterways connect hundreds of cities and industrial regions. Some 20 out of 27 Member States have inland waterways, 12 of which have an interconnected waterway networks.