Dwindling water levels on Germany's big rivers, worsened by heat and drought, are raising fears that badly constrained riverboat cargo traffic may deal another blow to the struggling economy.

"Rhine water levels dropped to multi-year lows in August and are now comparable to 2H18 levels, when Germany-exposed chemicals saw material operational..."

Germany needs a crisis task force to respond to record-low water levels across the Rhine and Danube rivers, Oliver Krischer, transport minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, told…

Germany has experienced successive heat waves with little rainfall this summer