Classification of European Inland Waterways

Class I corresponds to the historical Freycinet gauge decreed in France during 1879. The larger river classification sizes are focused on the carriage of intermodal containers in convoys of barges propelled by a push-tug. Most of the canals of the United Kingdom have smaller locks and would fall below the dimensions in the European classification system. In 2004, the standards were extended with four smaller sizes RA–RD covering recreational craft, which had originally been developed and proposed via PIANC.{{cite report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2ttr-W4Xp8C|title=Standards for the Use of Inland Waterways by Recreational Craft|publisher=PIANC|author=RecCom Working Group 8|isbn=2-87223-115-3|year=2000|accessdate=11 July 2012|pages=30–32|language=English|issue=103}} The proposal to add the recreational sizes was adopted by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe resolution 52.{{cite report|url=http://www.crosscut-nwe.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/meetings/presentations/Crosscut_Lille_27Jun07_-_11-Lamsweerde.pdf|title=Classification of Recreational waterways|publisher=Stichting Recreatietoervaart Nederland|first=David|last=Edwards-May|date=3 July 2007|accessdate=11 July 2012|location=Lille}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2013/sc3wp3/ECE-TRANS-SC3-164-Rev1e_01.pdf|work=European Recreational Inland Navigation Network|title=Resolution No.52|publisher=Economic Commission for Europe Inland Transport Committee|author=Working Party on Inland Water Transport|location=Geneva|date=19 November 2004}} In 2015 an updated version was published.{{Cite book|year=2015|title=Inland Waterway Transport in Europe: no significant improvements in modal share and navigability conditions since 2001|url=https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR15_01/SR15_01_EN.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=27 December 2021|website=European Court of Auditors|publisher=Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union|page=37|publication-place=Luxembourg|doi=10.2865/158305|isbn=978-92-872-1948-0|issn=1977-5679|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318032753/http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR15_01/SR15_01_EN.pdf |archive-date=2015-03-18 |author1=European Court of Auditors. }}

• Unified Deep Water System of European Russia (110-210m length max, min lock beam 14.3m, 2,5-3.5-4m draft)
• Baltimax (15,2m draft, the same as NeoPanamax)
• Bangkok Port (172m length, 25m beam -with special permit 30m-, 8,2m draft), Bangkokmax of 1944 TEU
• Seawaymax (USA Great Lakes docks, 8,08m draft), Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (draft 10,7m)
• Paraguay River (almost 2,5m in middle river, 1,6m in upper river)
• Grand Canal (China)
• Saimaa Canal (Finland, max length 82,5 m, beam 12,6m, draft 4,2m)
• Rhine–Main–Danube Canal for ships of 110x11,45x2,5m (up to 135m length with a special permit)

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• Waterway article including a reference to the European classification
• [http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/sc3/European_inland_waterways_-_2012.pdf Map of the European Inland Waterway Network], United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (4th edition, Geneva 2012), without the recreational navigation categories. [http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2012/sc3wp3/ECE-TRANS-SC3-144rev2e.pdf Waterway Standards].
• European Waterways Map and Directory, 5th ed., David Edwards-May (Transmanche, 2014), {{ISBN|979-1-094429-00-6}}

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