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“Unlocking Europe’s Waterways: The Benefits of Enlarging our Locks”

2023-04-29 10:32:56

The challenge, in the long term, is to avoid several thousand trucks on our roads. This is a phenomenon called “le report modal“. “There will be a better absorption capacity at the level of the lock sitewelcomes the spokesperson. You should know that a single lock movement is the equivalent of 560 16-ton trucks.”

Enlarging our locks therefore amounts to developing our waterways to make them competitive with road transport. If the bet is successful, the consequences will be observed on a local, regional, but also European scale. This is why the European Commission has subsidized this work, the total budget of which amounts to 138 million euros.

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