![]() The rhine river is one of the crucial European rivers. A real problem.īy the way, Nierstein is not only a well-known wine-growing small town but also has a place in history particularly interesting for US citizens.This description is all about the Rhine river map located in Europe. Local councils have had a crisis meeting, all want to help, Rhineland-Palatinate has promised 60,000 euros but Hesse is not giving any money, stating that "the law concerning traffic does not allow for such compensations in this case" (my shortened translation). It appears that commuters and occasional travellers use diversions of the road works or avoid the area completely so the ferry now only has a third of the customers it normally has, the average in normal times is 1,500 passengers a day. The operators of the ferry from Nierstein to Kornsand face financial ruin due to roadworks and road closures on both sides of the river, nor far from their ferry terminal. Hopefully, this will not be the "problem" that will be the end of the ferry "Landskrone". Further downstream from the wide river you do not cross international borders but sometimes boundaries, at Nierstein it is from Rhineland-Palatinate into Hesse (left bank to right bank). There are quite a few ferries taking you across the river. In my current avatar is a photo of the Rhinau area in France, taken from onboard the ferry Rhenanus. I wonder if they will be making use of that capability and using spuds to stabilize the barge for the operation. The barge, Lastdrager27, is semi-submersible. There they have had to clear a maneuvering area (to which some have taken great umbrage). Interestingly, in Speyer they are not off loading the sub at the usual industrial harbor, but at the natural harbor on an old channel of the Rhein. It will be fascinating to see how they rotate the U17 to get through the bridge(s) at Heidelberg and what kind of barge and push boat they used on the Neckar. Please share if you run across an article about the barge trip that will take the submarine from Speyer and up the Neckar to Haßmersheim and then from there over the roads to Sinsheim. Tomorrow the pushboat will dock at the "Bastei" in Cologne.Ī detailed description of the transport of U17 from Kiel to Sinsheim should to be the subject of its own exhibit! Especially the parts of the trip in around Speyer and Sinsheim. This is the pushboat and the company with the fleet, based in Dordrecht: The Pieter van der Wees with her highly unusual cargo is docking in Duisburg for the night. They would then give you a tour of the Rhine Gorge area by bus or a smaller local excursion boat if available. Viking would then seamlessly transfer you to the same stateroom on an identical ship at the other end of the Rhine gorge to continue your trip to Basel. ![]() Worst case, if a bad drought occurs, is that your Viking ship might have to stop at Koblenz, downstream of the most likely low water spot at Kaub in the Rhine Gorge. It looks to me right now that there will very good water levels well into June. However the rains came and we had smooth sailing the whole way. However all through February and into March the water levels were looking quite low for that time of year and the low snowpack didn't look like it's thaw would help much. My wife and I decided to travel this year in April (just got back) thinking no way would we have low water in early/mid spring. Please LORD keep those water levels in good shape for all of us river cruisers. Glad this forum is available for us to monitor. Water levels weren't on my radar at the time of booking. We are going on our first Viking River cruise at the end of July from Amsterdam to Basel.
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