Working together with Austria’s Supreme Shipping Authority, via donau came up with a concept, realized by an Austrian system supplier. via donau has been coordinating the implementation of DoRIS and acting as the RIS operator in Austria since the operational start of the system in the 1st quarter of 2006.

All of DoRIS’ key system components and services are based on the standards of the European Union, the UN/ECE and the two river commissions, the Danube Commission and the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine. This makes DoRIS the world’s first comprehensive RIS installation compliant with European initiatives.

The coordination and implementation of further RIS services is done with partners of the Danube countries and Western European countries in the framework of the EU project IRIS Europe (www.iris-europe.net). Primarily the international data exchange and the construction of the RIS infrastructure are forced under the leadership of via donau and the Dutch ministry of transport.