Composite key to new carrier

摘要

Dutch government funding of the full design study for the 'CompoCaNord' project was made available in June, after The European Commission authorised the release of €600,000 in state aid, on the basis that the forward-looking venture would encourage the development of waterway transport by improving the technical characteristics of inland navigation vessels. The objective of the project is to develop an innovative, multi-purpose, lightweight, composite inland shipping vessel, for use as either a dry or wet bulk carrier, or as a general cargo ship. The ship will be able to maintain and expand the waterways currently used by the existing fleet of smaller' conventional steel ships, in waterway networks stretching from France to Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and elsewhere.