Future of the Inland Waterway Transport

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the inland waterway transport in the Czech Republic, which has been considerably stagnating since the 90´s of the last century. The unfavorable development of the waterway transport has an adverse influence on the development of transport companies, shipbuilding industry and, last but not least, the national economy. In future, the waterway transport can play an important role especially in transporting the energy sources.

Keywords

• waterway transport
• traffic volume
• transport performance
• classification of inland waterways