Douro’s Inland Waterway 2020

The project Douro's Inland Waterway 2020 was born to improve the river Douro's inland waterway navigability conditions, strengthening its safety, optimizing its communication’s system and creating new possibilities for companies to use the waterway as a mean of transportation.

Within the scope of this project, the Hydrographic Institute is responsible for producing the nautical cartography of the Douro Waterway (210 Km), and the following tasks are envisaged:

• Hydrographic and topographic surveys;
• Technical Support for the redefinition of the navigational channel layout;
• Fluvial signaling project;
• Study of real-time observation and diffusion system of instantaneous water height;
• Nautical cartography production, fluvial series (paper and digital);
• Study of monitoring and improvement of positioning.

Comissão Europeia.

European Commission.

The nautical cartography of the river is under construction for publication during 2018.