By Olena Harmash (Reuters) – Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River in a drone attack on Monday, targeting a vital export route for Kyiv in an expanding air campaign that Moscow began last…
https://gcaptain.com/russian-drones-attack-danube-grain-terminal/
German travel agency and cruise company Phoenix Reisen recently expanded its fleet with the acquisition of a new river cruise ship built by Vahali Shipyards of Croatia. N ..
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Europe’s warm and dry winter weather has decreased demand for LNG ships and a lack of snow could lower the spring water levels of major rivers like the Rhine and…
https://gcaptain.com/warm-winter-lng-demand-inland-shipping-europe/
Dutch companies RensenDriessen Shipbuilding and TeamCo Shipyard have handed over a new tanker to local shipowner Unibarge. Dallas was designed by RensenDriessen, which wa ..
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By Fedja Grulovic PRAHOVO, Serbia, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Europe’s worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the…
https://gcaptain.com/low-water-on-danube-river-reveals-sunken-ww2-warships/
UK cruise company Saga Cruises recently commenced operational sailings of its two newest luxury river cruise ships, Spirit of the Danube and Spirit of the Rhine. The sist ..
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A new tour boat has been delivered to an operator in Washington State and a UK river cruise company christens the latest addition to its fleet. Sea trials have been compl ..
By Andra Timu and Irina Vilcu (Bloomberg) Romania reopened a Soviet-era rail link connecting its Danube River port of Galati to Ukraine a month earlier than expected to help boost vital…
The river
The Danube is one of the most famous rivers in the world, along with the Nile, the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Mississippi. Along their routes are places of great natural and man-made beauty, as well as key sites in human history and culture.
The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe. Its path takes it through much of central and southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest into the Black Sea. The river makes its way through 10 nations – more than any other river in the world. The...
Eleven people suffered varying degrees of injury after a Danube River cruise ship struck a bridge in southern Slovakia on Friday, May 6. The incident was confirmed by And ..
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