The entire course of the Danube in Austria has been closed to shipping due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the country, and in neighbouring southern Germany. The state waterway company, via donau, announced the closure on Tuesday. “Safety cannot be guaranteed above a certain water level,” Christoph Caspar, spokesman for via donau, told […]
Two people have died and five are missing following a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary. Hungarian police received a report late on Saturday night that a man had been found with a head injury on the shore of the Danube near the town of Veroce, around 30 miles north of the capital […]
A cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall along the River Danube in Austria on Friday. A police statement said, “the ship was suddenly no longer able to maneuver.” 11 people were hospitalized and another 6 suffered less serious injuries. A Bulgarian cruise ship carrying over 140 passengers crashed into a concrete wall along the […]
Russia has been officially expelled from one of the oldest international organisations, the Danube Commission, which regulates navigation on the Danube. Source: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter (X), reported by European Pravda Details: Kuleba reiterated that the Danube Commission decided at its 100th-anniversary session in December 2023 – during Ukraine’s first presidency – […]
Russia was expelled from the Danube Commission, an international intergovernmental organization developing free navigation on the Danube River, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reported on March 1. The commission adopted a decision in December last year calling on Russia to leave the organization as its continuous attacks on the Lower Danube region, part of which […]
It is planned to send first vessels with containers along the Danube River to Constance (Romania), and then up the river to Germany and Austria in the next few days. Source: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister of the Development of Hromadas, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, at the Ukraine.The Year 2024 forum Details: Container shipments are planned […]
Ukraine is planning an additional route via the Danube River to circumvent the ongoing protests and ensuing problems at the Polish border, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 20, citing comments from Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. The Danube’s importance as a shipping route rose sharply following Russia’s unilateral withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal in […]
Ukraine plans to use an additional route on the Danube River to increase the export to pre-war levels since the Polish blockade of agricultural products shuts off Ukraine’s ground border with the EU. Source: Bloomberg “We are planning container transportation via the upper Danube as Romania is more predictable than the Polish border,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, […]
(Bloomberg) — Ukraine said it’s planning an additional route via the Danube River to boost exports to pre-war levels as a spat with Poland over agricultural deliveries blocks a land border with the European Union. Most Read from Bloomberg The Danube became a priority avenue for Ukrainian supplies after Russia exited a United Nations-backed safe […]
A cargo vessel loaded with fertiliser sank after hitting a bridge on the Danube River border between Serbia and Croatia, prompting fears of serious environmental damage, authorities have said. Serbia’s environment ministry said the barge that sank some 40 minutes after midnight was carrying 1,000 tonnes of nitrogen fertiliser. It added that the Environmental Protection […]