About Wanda

2.845 kilometres long, the river Danube connects 10 countries on its way from the origin in the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. The river and its catchment area are an invaluable and unique ecosystem providing habitat for the most diverse fauna and flora.

...is an international waterway

It furthermore is gaining increasing importance as an international waterway. Given the historical and technical developments in the last centuries, the transport of goods from the Black Sea to the North Sea via the Danube – Main-Danube Canal and the river Rhine has now become a reality.

Although inland navigation is an environmental-friendly transport mode, concepts for handling the potentially negative side-effects of an increase in cargo and passenger traffic still have to be developed.

...which has to be protected from pollution!

The project “Waste management for inland Navigation on the Danube“ (WANDA) was created in order to ensure the protection of the Danube and its ecosystem from pollution. The aim of WANDA is to find common solutions for a sustainable, environmentally sound and cross-border coordinated approach to ship waste management for cargo vessels along the Danube.