What is CLINSH?
CLINSH is a European consortium promoting clean inland waterway transport. Within CLINSH Dutch, Belgian, German and English public and private organizations work together.  September 1^st, 2016 the consortium CLINSH started the implementation of the CLINSH project with a Grant of the European fund LIFE. The province Zuid-Holland is the lead partner of the CLINSH project.

What its main objective?
The main objective of CLINSH is to improve air quality in urban areas by accelerating emission reductions in Inland Waterway Transport. 

The CLINSH consortium aims to:
* demonstrate the effectiveness of greening measures in the IWT sector
* stimulate the sector to personally take these greening measures
* contribute to improving air quality.

Read more about the project and its activities.

Results
The CLNISH project is coming to an end. The coming period results of the different workpackages of the project will be published online.

Click on one of the links below to download the report.

- Harbour monitoring (A): Air quality on the Rhine and in the inland ports of Duisburg and Neuss/Düsseldorf. 
- Harbour monitoring (B): Determination of NOX and particulate matter emissions from inland vessels at berth

The European Life Program

Clinsh fits in the European Life Program. Life is a European project that supports environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects. Since 1992, Life has co-financed some 4306 projects. For the 2014-2020 funding period, Life will contribute approximately € 3.4 billion to the protection of the environment and climate.