Venue: Novotel Düsseldorf City West Address: Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf, Germany Attendees Canal River Trust - Danny Brennan Canal River Trust - Stephen Higham Provincie Antwerpen - Sabine Denissen Waterways Netherlands - Manon van Meer City of Ghent - Rudy van der Ween Rijkswaterstaat - Paul van der Maat Waterways Ireland - Caroline McCarroll

Venue: Flemish Waterways Address: Koning Albert II-laan 20 bus 14, 1000 Brussels Attendees: Canal & River Trust - Danny Brennan, Chair Canal & River Trust - Chris Barnett Hosting partner, Flemisch Waterways, Judith Wouters Waterways Ireland, Caroline McCarroll Provence of Antwerp - Sabine Denissen Telemark County Counsil - Dawn Syvertsen Voies Navigables de France -

On 22 May, Canal & River Trust, re-launched their new, revitalised  ‘brand’. This is vital to increase awareness of the Trust and its wider role, to reach new audiences and broaden support for its move to become a waterways and wellbeing charity. The attached documents and the link to a presentation by Heather Clarke, Strategy,

Green WIN secures funding from North West Europe’s (NWE) Low Carbon Priority. It addresses the problem of excess energy use and high carbon emissions Waterway Management Organisations (WMO’s) cause across NWE when pumping water around waterways. The aim is to demonstrate improvements which deliver energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions from our pilots by the

Venue: Erlebnis Bremerhaven GmbH Address: H.-H.-Meier-Straße 6, 27568 Bremerhaven 09:30 Arrival and coffee 10:00 Welcome and Opening by Chair: Danny Brennan Attendees: Organisation Contactperson Canal & River Trust Danny Brennan (DB), Chair x Canal & River Trust Chris Barnett (CB) x Bremerhaven Franziska Stenzel (FS) x Hosting partner, Bremerhaven Claudia Harms (CH) x Provence of

On Thursday the 27st of April, a meeting has taken place of the NIWE (Network Inland Waterways Europe). The meeting was hosted by Lagan Canal  Trust, one of the partners in the NIWE. On the Lagan Valley Island Centre in Lisburn city came 11 representatives from 8 different countries gathered for an interesting agenda. The agenda was focused on the

Six NIWE partners have submitted in January 2017 the Interreg NSR project: BLUEHUB,  under the leadpartnership of the Province of Antwerp (BE). The partnership will develop a successful and transverable model for “blue hubs”: multimodal switching points alongside inland waterways, connecting the traditional on land mobility networks with the (not yet developed) potential of inland

Following the UK referendum and the public decision for the UK to leave the EU, the Canal & River Trust is still committed to NIWE and the development and delivery of transnational projects with the network and other like-minded organisations. At the Conservative Party Conference on 3rd October, Phillip Hammond (UK Govt Chancellor of the

On Thursday the 21st of April, a meeting has taken place of the NIWE (Network Inland Waterways Europe). The meeting was hosted by Canal & River Trust, one of the partners in the NIWE. On the Limehouse Basin in London came 10 representatives from 5 different countries gathered for an interesting agenda. The agenda was focused on INTERREG Europe, they

Union Canal In-House Spot Dredging Case Study During 2014, a number of boaters had pointed out to SC operational staff that there were high spots of sediment in the Union Canal that their boats were scraping into, making navigation difficult. These complaints were combined with data from a dipping survey in the Union Canal completed