ENI number

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Barge with ENI number

The European Number of Identification , or ENI number for short , is a uniform registration number for inland vessels . Since April 1, 2007, all inland vessels in Europe are to be marked with an eight-digit, uniform European ship number according to a Europe-wide uniform procedure. Ships with a Rhine certificate keep their previous official number, also known as the "Europe number", which is only preceded by a "0". The sequence of numbers cannot be changed and is assigned to the ship for life, even when it moves to another country. With this new system, the previous system on the Rhine was largely taken over.

The Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine has developed this new identification system for inland vessels in close cooperation with the European Community . It has changed its Police Ordinance and its Rhine Vessel Investigation Regulations in order to introduce the “uniform European ship number”, commonly known as the “ENI number” (§§ 2.17, 2.18 and 24.08 RheinSchUO).

Structure of the European ship number

AAAXXXXX

  • A = Code of the competent authority that issues the European ship number.
  • X = consecutive number.

Number ranges for competent authorities:

Web links

Commons : Watercraft by ENI number  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine
  2. Uniform European ship number (ENI) for all inland vessels. Electronic Waterway Information Service (ELWIS), accessed on May 14, 2019 .