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- Rainfall raised the Rhine’s water level, letting ships carry up to ninety percent of capacity.
- Cargo vessels on the Rhine are sailing between seventy and ninety percent full after earlier shallow-water limits.
- Traders say low water forced freight surcharges and required splitting cargo among partially loaded ships.
- Shipping activity near Duisburg and Cologne is near normal.
- Vessels at the Kaub bottleneck remain limited to about seventy percent capacity.
