(PLANNED) PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH INLAND WATERWAYS

Inland waterway transport constitutes an important part of the transport system in many countries as well as grounds for transport services rendered pursuant to the requirements of sustainable development. In Poland, there are about 3650 km of navigable inland waterways. The problem is that only 6 %...

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Main Author: Miklinska, Joanna
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic development
Information services
Infrastructure
Inland waterways
Investment
Investments
Logistics
Negligence
Public private partnerships
Rivers
Sustainable development
Transport
Waterways
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Summary:Inland waterway transport constitutes an important part of the transport system in many countries as well as grounds for transport services rendered pursuant to the requirements of sustainable development. In Poland, there are about 3650 km of navigable inland waterways. The problem is that only 6 % of them includes waterways which satisfy the requirements (class) of international waterways, and many inland ports fail to meet up-to-date standards. Such situation results from many years of negligence and lack of necessary infrastructural investments. The ratification of AGN convention by Poland, in 2017, is an important moment for implementing changes as well as various infrastructural projects with different sources of funding. Some of them are planned as Public Private Partnership. So far, this solution has not been applied in Poland within this mode of transport. The aim of this article is twofold: 1) to present the current state of inland waterways infrastructure in Poland as well as the scheduled infrastructural investments, 2) to analyse the specificity of scheduled PPP initiatives in the Polish Inland Waterways. In order to fulfil the main objective of this article, the author analysed the reference literature, legal acts and recently published investment plans regarding the development of inland waterways in Poland as well as the Database of PPP investment plans in Poland, managed by the Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, and Shortened investment project descriptions. The article provides the current condition of inland waterways in Poland, the inland waterway development plans in Poland and the support programmes, as well as formal and legal grounds of the analysed issues. Special attention was paid to projects planned in the form of PPP.
ISSN:1849-6903
1849-6903