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In our FFCs , we focus less on single IWT entrepreneurs , or ship - owners , but

more on freight flows . Also , projects aiming to tackle the challenges in IWT are

strongly focusing on technology . This shift from technology and ship owners to

freight flows places responsibilities on all stakeholder along an IWT transport

chain , requiring them to share responsibilities , costs and benefits and jointly

implement new technologies .

In this novel approach a freight flow is no longer considered a combination

of individual business models , but a collective business - cooperation

proposition .

Organising freight flow stakeholders around their common interests in terms of

environmental goals and profitability this improves potential financing

propositions spreads benefits and allows for durable and continuous freight

flow oriented environmental impacts

InnoWaTr is driven by a feeling that a different approach to IWT is needed . An

approach that encourages the uptake of innovations in the sector ; an

approach that individual actors in logistics cannot master .

We feel the key is collaboration across all stakeholders along a supply chain .

This is where a „ freight flow coalition “ ( FFC ) comes in . InnoWaTr introduces

and validates the concept of FFCs : a transnational multi stakeholder

approach that , per freight flow , shares responsibilities and benefits amongst

all stakeholders to accelerate joint innovation .