Duisburg contract

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The Duisburg Treaty is the name of the agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Free State of Bavaria in 1966 , according to which the financing and implementation of the expansion measures for the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal are regulated. The contract was signed by Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm , Federal Finance Minister Rolf Dahlgrün , Prime Minister Alfons Goppel and Bavarian Finance Minister Konrad Pöhner in Duisburg on September 16 .

Among other things, the contract deals with the expansion of the major obstacle on the navigable Danube route between Kelheim and the Black Sea , which over a length of 69 km represented a bottleneck on the as yet undeveloped stretch between Straubing and Vilshofen . The decades-long regulation of the low water level was unsuccessful, which is why the contract was signed in 1966.

In connection with the Danube Canalization Agreement of 1976 , the Danube route from Regensburg to the Kachlet reservoir was also to be expanded with the aid of damming, so that the entire waterway is fully developed to the same extent . By the time the Main-Danube Canal was opened in 1992, the plan was to also complete the work on the German Danube . So far this has not been successful because associations have been able to show that nature conservation concerns oppose such a building project.

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