Odra river as an example of waterway for container shipping in the European transportation network

Despite the convenient system of waterways, the advantages of this branch of transport are scarcely used in Poland. As the share of goods transported in containers rose in the world, inland waterways in Western Europe were adapted to those new circumstances by changing the technology of transport so that it would allow shipping to participate in servicing new freight and new transport destinations. The development and implementation of intermodal concepts of transport opens for inland navigation the possibility to increase their share in transport. ODW [Oder Waterway], which runs through economic regions of great transport needs, is especially predestined to adapt to inland navigation by the development of combined transport of goods in containers.