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Low Water Levels Disrupt German Inland Shipping and Industrial Supply Chains

Falling river levels caused by limited rainfall are forcing inland vessels to carry smaller loads, disrupting deliveries to Germany’s chemicals, coal and steel industries along major commercial waterways.
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