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Bridging the Funding Gap

InnoWaTr Centre of Expertise

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There is a strong need to support

inland shipping with innovative

financing solutions .

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

HHX . blue specializes in

providing innovative financial

solutions tailored to the

complex and evolving

maritime industry .

HHX . blue aims at expanding

business in the IWT markets by

transferring knowledge

experience and lessons

learned on greening and

finance as a catalyst of

change from other segments

to IW fleets

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Olaf Danckwerts , Co - Founder and Managing

Director of HHX .

Olaf is a ship finance and restructuring expert

He was involved in large corporate and asset

backed financing projects for more than 25

years holding positions in various leading banks

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assessment tool

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