In the context of an annual site visit trip, the staff of the ENERGY BARGE partners Port of Straubing and its daughter company, the BioCampus Straubing GmbH went to the Port of Enns in Austria.

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During their 3-hour guided tour with the port master Mr Wanger, the staff experienced a high-performing inland port with a large potential for expansion as well as sophisticated IT infrastructure allowing for modern and save logistics procedures.

The large sawmill of the company Donausäge Rumplmayr GmbH, which uses the Danube as an important logistics component, was particularly impressive to the visitors. Moreover, the port management has designed an extraordinary marketing way to display the different cargo types Danube logistics can handle: on an old motor vessel, the deck has been remodelled into compartments in which the different cargo types are presented. An accompanying sign gives further info about the cargo, its utilisation and weight, e.g. wood chips for power generation or rape seed for fuel production.

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