Watertruck

Watertruck, a European Interreg IVB project, aims at the further development and optimization of cargo transport using small inland waterways by introducing a new navigational concept, consisting of a pusher and adapted pushed barges. As a result, an efficient and flexible road haulage model is applied to inland navigation. The two most important characteristics and advantages in comparison to the traditional inland navigation with motorised inland vessels are:

• No longer accommodation on board of the innovative, small pusher
• Decoupling of loading/unloading from the navigation itself

The Watertruck concept aims at tackling the biggest threats of the current traditional inland navigation:

• Rapidly disappearing of small inland vessels from the supply side of the transport market
• Lack of intake of labour forces for inland navigation on small waterways

Take a look at the Watertruck pilot project in Brussels and in Gistel.

Have a look at our animation movie