viadonau | Annual Report on Danube Navigation in Austria 2017 Annual Report on Danube Navigation in Austria inAustria Annual Report on Danube Navigation Key data on Danube navigation 20171 Transport volumes 9.6 million tons (+6.0%) • Import: 4.8 million tons (+12.2%) • Export: 2.4 million tons (+20.5%) • Transit: 2.0 million tons (–7.3%) • Domestic: 0.4 million tons (–36.1%) Transport performance 9.7 billion tkm (+4.8%) • Within Austria: 2.0 billion tkm (+3.1%) 8,932 loaded journeys (+5.7%) • Outside Austria: 7.7 billion tkm (+5.3%) Waterside transhipment at Austrian ports and transhipment sites 8.0 million tons (+6.5%) • Ores and metal waste: 2.6 million tons (+6.6%) • Petroleum products: 1.5 million tons (–0.8%) • Metal products: 1.0 million tons (+25.2%) • Crude and manufactured minerals, building materials: 0.9 million tons (–12.3%) • Agricultural and forestry products: 0.7 million tons (+11.4%) • Fertilisers: 0.6 million tons (–5.4%) • Other goods: 0.7 million tons (+58.0%) Vessel units locked through Austrian Danube locks 95,184 vessel units2 (+2.0%) • Freight transport: 51,164 units (–0.9%) • Passenger transport: 44,020 units (+5.6%) Passenger transport (including estimation) 1.3 million passengers (+2.8%) • Liner services: 705,000 passengers (±0.0%) • River cruises: 450,000 passengers (+8.4%) • Non-scheduled services: 110,000 passengers (±0.0%) Accidents 21 traffic accidents with damage • Personal injuries: 0 death, 1 serious, 1 slightly injured • Damage to property: 4 ship to ship, 1 grounding incident, 16 incidents with damage to riverbanks and facilities, 0 ship sunk Availability of the waterway 351 days • Closures due to high water: 0 days 15 year average: 357 days • Closures due to ice: 14 days 1 Changes from 2016 are given as percentages in brackets. 2 Convoys and individual vessels. Source: Statistics Austria; Supreme Navigation Authority at the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology; Federal Office of Transport; miscellaneous passenger transport operating companies; viadonau Contents Foreword .................................................................................................................. 4 Balance sheet viadonau .......................................................................................... 6 Customer satisfaction: infrastructure ................................................................... 14 Transport volumes ................................................................................................... 16 Port transhipment ................................................................................................... 18 Commodity groups .................................................................................................. 20 Passenger transport ............................................................................................... 22 Availability of waterway .......................................................................................... 24 Load factor ............................................................................................................... 26 Fairway depths ........................................................................................................ 28 Transport density ..................................................................................................... 30 Locked-through vessel units .................................................................................. 32 Availability of locks and waiting times ................................................................... 34 Accidents .................................................................................................................. 36 Modal split ............................................................................................................... 38 Freight transport on the entire Danube ................................................................. 40 Fairway conditions along the entire Danube......................................................... 42 Map Austrian section of the Danube ..................................................................... 44 Imprint ...................................................................................................................... 46 Editorial note: Small variations of the figures within this annual report to Statistics Austria’s figures may arise due to rounding differences. Page 4 Foreword Foreword Page 5 Profi ting from advantages Consistently digitalising the waterway Modernising for the future Modern methods for modern services The Danube is Europe’s second-longest river, connecting some For us, maintaining and developing the waterway and its natural 80 million people in ten countries and plays a major role in shaping environment successfully means not only knowing the Danube, but one of the most important economic regions on the continent. Yet its also understanding it. With the help of modern software, we can potential as an effi cient transport alternative is still to be utilised to create a digital image of the river that allows us to continuously its fullest extent. The international trend is towards environmentally expand our knowledge base. Modern working methods for modern friendly modes of transport and the role of inland shipping is growing services are especially important for us; digitalisation of the water- steadily. It is therefore important to make targeted use of its strengths, way also needs to be accessible to its users. such as high load capacity and benefi cial performance ratios for greenhouse gas emissions. The encouragement of a shift in trans- As an ecological and economic lifeline for Europe, the Danube NORBERT HOFER HANS-PETER HASENBICHLER Federal Minister for Transport, port modes from land to inland waterway and the promotion of deserves to be protected and preserved by us for the future at the Managing Director Innovation and Technology its signifi cance in multimodal transport is thus a matter of major highest technical level. viadonau therefore relies on state-of-the-art of viadonau importance to us. integrative solutions to continue to provide its customers on the waterway with the comprehensive range of activities that it has been Both viadonau and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation providing for many years. These include daily maintenance and and Technology (bmvit) have for a long time realised the growing repair work, renaturation measures and information services. importance of effi cient inland navigation. With bmvit’s Action With our Waterway Asset Management System (WAMS), we use Programme Danube, we are promoting the waterway as a safe and customised digital tools to analyse the waterway on a daily basis environmentally friendly transport route. At the same time, we are and optimise it in the most precise way possible. At the same time, working within the framework of the European transport minister’s we are engaging with national and international partners in projects Maintenance Master Plan for the entire Danube to establish har- such as RIS COMEX and FAIRway Danube to ensure a Europe-wide monised high standards of conservation, maintenance and infor- harmonisation of fairway information. Together, we are creating the mation at an international level. In doing so, we continue to rely on modern and holistic conditions in which nature, the economy and state-of-the-art digital solutions in order to constantly improve the people can develop in harmony over the long term in one of the most Danube’s quality of use, with one clear objective: a reliable waterway important residential areas in Europe. that is fi t for the future and serves as a sustainable and strong economic factor, not only in Austria, but also throughout the whole Danube region. Page 6 Balance sheet viadonau Balance sheet viadonau Page 7 FIGURES_DATA_FACTS BALANCE SHEET VIADONAU Cost of core tasks Charting a modern course viadonau 2017 Top services for the entire Danube Digitalisation is at the very heart of the viadonau’s modernisation of the waterway. F In line with the company’s philosophy, viadonau continues to pursue a holistic F E A development approach – from the maintenance of the fairway to an international Other Infrastructure commitment to providing uniform high standards of conservation and information 2.2% management 726,890 Euros 55.2% along the entire Danube. D 17,897,077 Euros E Make way for the fish. During a period of around one and a half years, a unique Real estate B fish migration aid was constructed in the 20th district of Vienna at the weir of the 6.9% Traffic management 2,239,745 Euros 17.2% Nussdorf power plant in the centre of the Austrian capital. With a total of 37 vertical “The Danube is the 5,576,125 Euros slot pools and a length of 320 meters, it even tunnels under the historic Schemerl lifeline for a species-rich D bridge which was built in 1898. The opening ceremony for the fish ladder took place natural environment. C Flood control C on 4th April 2017. An overview of the bigger 8.1% Development 2,617,864 Euros and innovation picture is therefore 10.4% Precision measures for nature. Since 2017, viadonau’s numerous environmental essential for its sustain- 3,386,060 Euros services have been bundled into the company’s Natural Resources Management able protection. The A System. The goal: to accurately focus resources on projects that have the greatest Natural Resources benefits for the Danube region. The system is based on a small number of easily Management System measurable key figures which