Droughts leave cargo riverboats high and dry

Increased droughts are forcing shipping companies to abandon some of the world's main river cargo routes, warns Ann Christina Sloek-Andersen.Ms Sloek-Andersen is a senior director at global shipping giant Maersk."[Last summer] we had to switch a lot of cargo from river to rail in Europe," she says, "in order to keep the big German industry clusters in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hessen connected to the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp." ยูฟ่าไทยแลน