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Importance of Danube-Sava multipurpose Canal for economic connection of Adriatic and Danubian area

The development of inland waterways was laid down in the documents on spatial planning and trasnportation in the Republic of Croatia. The construction of the new port Vukovar to Šamac and the Danube-Sava multipurpose canal (DSMC) from Vukovar to Šamac according to the Vb class parameters of international waterways presents the integral part of documentation. The construction of DSMC would enable the shortening of the waterways along the Sava and Danube rivers in the direction of the Middle Europe for 417 km and for 85 km in the direction of Eastern Europe (Black Sea). In additiona to considerable shortening of the waterway, the economic and environmental benefits of river and inland waterway traffic compared to the railway and road traffic should be correctly and independantly evaluated. The DSMC project is a component of Croatias traffic and economic development and of the programme of enhancing the traffic and economic linking of the countries of Danubian and Adriatic area. Bearing in mind basic indicators from the previous study and DSMC project documentation, one shoud emphasise its importance for the better functioning of drainage system and creation of irrigation conditions on 33.000 ha of agricultural land, along with enrichment of low waters. Its construction would enhance the more balanced economic development of Croatia and would contribute to more efficient traffic and economic connecting with the Danubian countries.

Multipurpose Canal; Danube; Sava; inland waterways; development; traffic; economy

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