Germany Begins Trials to Reopen Mosel River to Shipping after Accident Damaged Lock
Authorities began trials to reopen the Mosel River in west Germany to domestic freight transportation over the weekend, with ships now able to use a damaged lock after an accident last week.
Shipping was stopped on the river, an important transit route for grains and rapeseed between Germany and France, after an accident involving a passenger vessel on Wednesday damaged a lock at Sankt Aldegund, between the cities of Koblenz and Trier, in western Germany.
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