5. CARGO FLEETS - CCNR - Observation Du Marché

Footnotes

22. CBS receives raw data on the operative fleet in the Netherlands from the Waterway Administration (Rijkswaterstaat) and transmits them to the CCNR. These vessels are operative as they have passed measurement points in 2025 in the Netherlands.
23. Source: Danube Commission, Yearbook of statistics 2023. For the German fleet, only the German Danube fleet is considered within the Danube fleet data.
24. Idem.
25. Idem.
26. The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
27. In 2025, 3 new floating equipment and 1 service vessel were commissioned.
28. The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
29. The IVR database accounts for active vessels but might also include some inactive vessels, in particular those commissioned in earlier years.
30. See Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR), Roadmap for reducing inland navigation emissions, available on the CCNR website
31. This excludes vessels with a strictly national certificate or vessels below the thresholds of the Rhine Vessel Inspection Regulations (RVIR) and the directive (EU) 2016/1629.
32. The floating equipments were not taken into account for the purpose of this analysis but are included in the database.
33. These are not taken into account in the 78 vessels considered in this analysis.
34. The primary energy carrier is the most commonly used for vessel propulsion, while secondary and tertiary energy carriers are used to a lesser extent.
35. Projects cancelled or out of service excluded.