In Berlin
The Rhine water is evaporating every day and no precipitation is on the horizon in the river basin before Wednesday.
The barges often only carry a quarter of the usual load, in order to be able to continue sailing along the increasingly exposed and cracked bed to the shores.
The water level at Kaub, a strategic point west of Frankfurt, will decide whether traffic continues.
Below 30 centimeters measured at the edge, a level it should reach this week, the Rhine is very difficult to navigate.
In places, the majestic river seems practically reduced to a modest stream.
Despite this persistent drought, the president of the Federal Navigation Administration (WSV), Hans-Heinrich Witte, wants to be reassuring.
“We do not expect river traffic to stop”
, he told the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
A scenario dreaded by Roberto Spranzi.
From his office overlooking the commercial port of Duisburg, the director of…
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