THE DANUBE WATERWAY TRANSPORT AND TRADE CORRIDOR -PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Dimitar Stefanov Dimitrov
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Dimitar Stefanov Dimitrov: Faculty of Economics, South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad

Economics & Law, 2019, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The Danube is a historic river with a lot of names -Istros, Danubis, Donau, Dunai ... It's a river with nearly 3,000 years of history. Here, on its territory, since the Antiquity untill the New Age, people, civilizations and states have been formed: the civilizations of the Thracians and the Greco-Romans; as well as the empires of the Germans and Slavs, the Hungarians and the Romanians; Osterreich, German and Russian. Today the river is part of the trans-European water transport corridor "Rhine-Mayn-Danube", which crosses the continent diagonally from the North Sea and Atlantic to the Black Sea and the Orient. The Bulgarian coast i organically connected with centuries of commercial shipping in Central and Southeast Europe. The main topic of this article is to reveal the past, present and future of this important waterway, identified as "Corridor 7".

Keywords: Danube; trans-European water transport corridor; important waterway "Corridor 7" (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 L62 L90 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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