Germany's Rhine river has re-opened to shipping as water levels fell from recent highs in the last southern stretches blocked after last week's record rains, authorities said on Friday.

BERLIN – Flooding on the Rhine river has prompted authorities to halt shipping around Cologne, but regional officials hope that water levels will peak early in the week. Persistent rainfall and ...

The Rhine River, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, was shut to barges upstream of Koblenz in Germany as water levels along some parts of the river rose to the highest in at least seven years ...

A preliminary analysis of satellite imagery shows wide areas of flooding along rivers in western Germany and neighboring countries. ... The Rhine River. GERMANY. Rhine River. Dortmund. Essen. Hagen.

BERLIN – Rivers in western Germany are overflowing their banks due to pouring rain and melting snow, flooding many roads and parts of several villages. Authorities in Rhineland-Palatinate, the ...

Improving flood protection on the Rhine river. Over 26 km of the river, before it meets Lake Constance on the border between Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the plan is to create more space for ...

Germany is trying to save the Rhine. “Save,” in this case, means keep the river navigable for cargo ships. Naturally, engineers have been dispatched to find a way to make the waterway more ...

The four-hour passage through the gorge was the highlight of a week-long Rhine River cruise in June on the Australian-owned Scenic Opal, a 169-passenger luxury ship that was launched in 2015.

The Rhine is the most important river in Western Europe. It runs through a German industrial region, among other places, and more than 300 million tons of goods are supposed to move on its waters ...

Flooding on the Rhine, 1955 ... 1955: German workers haul wheelbarrows of sandbags in an effort to reinforce a dike that's threatened by flood waters of the Rhine river.