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Bridging the Funding Gap

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In inland shipping , finding competitive financiers to fund your project can

prove to be difficult . Declining IWT modal share , an ageing fleet and the

impact of climate change on river water level provide uncertainty to

prospective funders . As such , IWT fails to play out its environmental

credentials .

In InnoWaTr , HHX . blue developed a self - assessment tool for freight flow

coalitions to assess the business case and the related financing and greening

propositions respectively . The tool enables FFCs to adjust their projects and

business propositions to market conditions in ship finance and enhance the

probability of attracting appropriate finance as well as complying with

greening requirements , or even better , providing good examples exceeding

them .

The self - assessment tool uses Stated

Preference ( SP ) surveys to quantify

users ’ behaviour in a new situation by

exposing them to structured

questionnaires and / or focus groups .

SP surveys are useful in cases where

no real - world data exists to make

conclusions . SP surveys are most

widely used in transportation as in the

case of IW to understand how users

and service providers will trade off

money to gain something less

tangible such as time savings

reliability or greening

Lars Stemmler

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Access to finance is critical for innovative IWT solutions