BASEL - Port operators said spring water levels on the Rhine allowed normal loading in the second week of May. Fuel, grain and containers moved without the light-barge surcharges that appear when the river runs thin.
Chemistry and pharma along the corridor still treat the waterway as a motorway they do not own. Trains help. They do not replace it.
July will be the test
Our later summer note, 7 July, records another ordinary month. The fact that ordinary is now a headline is the climate story without a slogan.