Press release No. N053 of 26 August 2022
- 82.4 million tonnes of goods transported on German inland waterways
Coal and mineral oil products were the most important product groups
WIESBADEN – The low water level of the Rhine and many other rivers is currently affecting the freight transport on inland waterways and makes it more difficult to maintain supply chains. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that a total of 82.4 million tonnes of goods were transported on German inland waterways from January to May 2022. Most of that freight (86.3%, or 71.1 million tonnes) was carried completely or partly on Germany’s most important inland waterway, the river Rhine. Well over 18,000 freight vessels with roughly 20.6 million tonnes of goods also passed the bottleneck in the Middle Rhine Valley in the first five months of 2022. The measuring point at the town of Kaub is regarded as an important indicator of the navigable depth of the Rhine.
Detailed data are available in tables 46321 in the GENESIS-Online database.