European ship

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Europaschiff on the Mittelland Canal near Hanover

Waterway network Germany and adjacent, Euro ship: light green

Europaschiff describes a specification for a type of inland waterway vessel that can operate on those European shipping routes that correspond to at least Class IV inland waterways .

In addition to the pure ship data such as length 85 m, width 9.5 m, unloading depth 2.50 m and transport capacity of 1350 tons, this standard also describes the load in the water such as speed, wave action, back currents, etc. From this, the structural data can be determined for the respective canal administrations Derive requirements for a sewer and its structures .

The Europaschiff was designed at the end of the 1960s from the Johann-Welker-Schiff according to the dimensions of the Rhein-Herne-Kanalschiff . The Europaschiff was the most important type ship for the expansion and maintenance of all canals and smaller waterways such as B. the middle weser . In the meantime, all major canals in Germany (such as the Mittelland Canal , the Rhine-Herne Canal , the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the Wesel-Datteln Canal ) have been converted to the so-called large motor ship (GMS) (110 m in length , 11.40 m width, 2.80 m draft and 2300 t deadweight) expanded; the large motor ship is similar in its dimensions to the large Rhine ship .