Supervision of Danube navigation was assumed by the six Communist riparians (including, of course, the Soviet Union). Austria has since become a full member of the new Danube Commission, ...

“Improving Danube navigation should not conflict with conservation measures aimed at saving sturgeons and other species”, said Orieta Hulea, Head of Freshwater at the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme. ...

Expecting an economic miracle from investments in Danube navigation is a myth, and potentially a very costly mistake." said Andreas Beckmann, Director of the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme. The ...

The Danube is officially open to navigation for the first time since the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia two and a half years ago. A safe channel has been approved through the Serbian city of Novi Sad ...

The mighty 650-kilometre Danube River that snakes throughout Europe from the Black Forest to the Black Sea is receding at some of its banks.

Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during ...

In Serbia, the authorities have resorted to dredging to keep navigation lanes on the Danube open. By Prahovo, some of the hulks have narrowed the navigable section on this stretch of the Danube to ...

Workers at a Serbian shipping company on Tuesday ended their blockade of the Danube river, one of Europe's main waterways, which started last week in protest over wage arrears.

As the conference on Danube navigation closed with a Western whimper last week, just about the only thing the U.S. could smile about was a news picture from Belgrade (see cut). It showed ...