{"id":1442,"date":"2021-08-17T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saveoder.org\/the-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:17:10","slug":"the-threat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saveoder.org\/en\/the-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Expansion to an international waterway<\/div>\n

The Threat<\/h1>\n
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River landscape of the Oder in danger <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, Germany and Poland signed a government agreement to expand the Oder border river, ostensibly for flood protection by means of deep icebreakers and for inland shipping. The port in Schwedt is to be made accessible for coasters and the ports in Szczecin and \u015awinouj\u015bcie are to be expanded for ocean-going vessels. On the entire Oder, the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic are even planning a chain of barrages and the construction of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal to connect the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea for large inland vessels. As the so-called E-30 waterway, the Oder is to become an international waterway in the core network of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T)<\/a>. It would be designed for ships with a length of more than 80 meters. To accommodate them, the channeled Oder must be at least 2.5 meters deep. The construction would destroy this great natural river in the middle of Europe. In the face of this, great efforts are required from everyone so that the mistakes made in the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal are not repeated. <\/p>\n\n\n

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