!!!Donauschiffahrt

Danube Shipping: 350 km of the navigable section of the River 
Danube (Kehlheim- Sulina, 2,415 km) lie on Austrian territory. As 
high and low waters as well as ice formations occasionally impede 
navigation the capacity of transport of goods on the Danube has 
steadily decreased and stagnated between 1970 and 1990 with a 
transport volume of 7.5 and 8.1 million tons of freight. Since then 
Danube transport in Austria has increased through the combined  
transportation of cargo, the  Rhine-Main-Danube-Canal, which forms a 
connection to ports on the North Sea, and from the transport of bulk 
goods, semi-finished products and hazardous cargo. From 1997 to 1998 
traffic volume on the Danube rose from 9.2 million tons to 10.2 
million tons of freight. (  Danube Ports,  
Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Erste, DDSG).


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