Rules on the Priority of Passage Through Locks on the Moselle

Saar Trier lock - km 195,76 Wir machen Schifffahrt möglich. ce +49 (0) 651 3609-200 fi VHF channel 79 Detzem lock - km 166,85 +49 (0) 6507 9381-21 Trier river police +49 (0) 651 93819-0 VHF channel 78 Detzem regional of +49 (0) 6507 9381-0 ce fi Rules on the priority of passage Wintrich lock - km 141,48 +49 (0) 6534 9376-21 through locks on the Moselle UKW-Kanal 22 applicable as from 2012 Zeltingen lock - km 123,85 +49 (0) 6531 9629-21 VHF channel 20 Bernkastel-Kues regional of +49 (0) 6531 9637-0 ce Enkirch lock - km 102,97 fi Bernkastel river police +49 (0) 6531 9618-0 +49 (0) 6541 8372-21 VHF channel 18 Published by: St. Aldegund lock - km 78,30 Federal Waterways and Shipping Bullay regional of +49 (0) 6542 9379-0 +49 (0) 6542 9371-21 Administration Koblenz VHF channel 82 Schartwiesenweg 4 ce fi 56070 Koblenz Moselle Fankel lock - km 59,58 Phone +49 (0) 261 9819-0 +49 (0) 2671 91678-21 www.wsa-koblenz.wsv.de VHF channel 81 Federal Waterways and Shipping Müden lock - km 37,10 Administration Trier Cochem regional of +49 (0) 2671 6023-0 +49 (0) 2672 9376-21 Pacelliufer 16 Cochem river police +49 (0) 2671 984-200 VHF channel 79 54290 Trier Phone +49 (0) 651 3609-0 ce fi www.wsa-trier.wsv.de Lehmen lock - km 20,83 +49 (0) 2607 9409-21 March 2012 VHF channel 78 This brochure is part of the public relations work of the Koblenz lock - km 1,96 Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration and is free +49 (0) 261 9819-3850 of charge. It may not be used for the purpose of canvassing. Brodenbach regional of +49 (0) 2605 9640-0 VHF channel 20 Koblenz river police +49 (0) 261 97286-0 Rhine Priority of passage through locks: Order of passage through locks: Extract from the Police Regulations for the Navigation on the Moselle: As a consequence of the different lengths of the impoun- Example 1 ded reaches, varying discharges and the different types Article 6.29 Order of passage of vessels with different loads, maintaining the former 1. Order of arrival practice of designated time slots for vessels enjoying a. Passage through locks shall be in the order of arrival. priority of passage through locks was no longer feasible. ... Lock c. The lock staff may, however, give instructions departing The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban from this provision in order to ensure best possible use Development therefore decided to abolish the former of the lock or to lock through vessels carrying dangerous time slots for priority of passage through locks on the Order of passage through goods separately for safety reasons, if necessary. Moselle as from 2012. Only the provisions of Article ... 6.29 of the Police Regulations for the Navigation on the 5. Moselle (MoselSchPV) will be applicable. The priority of passage in accordance with paragraph 2 (b) shall grant the vessel concerned the right to be locked through before other vessels waiting to be locked through if Applicable provisions as from 1 January 2012: the vessel having the priority of passage is at a distance of less Example 2 than 1,500 m from the lock, its presence having either been • Specifi c time slots for a priority of passage through noted by the lock staff or reported by the vessel itself via radio- locks will no longer exist. Order of arrival telephone. In no case, it shall entitle the vessel to pass through the lock at a previously determined point in time. The priority • From now on, priority of passage will only be granted of passage through locks in accordance with paragraph 2 (b) for the time between 7 hrs and 20 hrs (Article 6.29 shall only be applicable between 7 hrs and 20 hrs. paragraph 5, p. 3 of the MoselSchPV). Between 20 hrs and 7 hrs, lock passage will take place exclusively in 6. the order of arrival in accordance with Article 6.29 Order of passage through After each upstream or downstream passage of a vessel paragraph 1bis of the MoselSchPV. claiming its right to priority of passage, one vessel without • Vessels enjoying priority of passage must fl y a red priority shall be locked through in the same direction. pennant (Article 3.17 of the MoselSchPV). ... Explanatory note on Article 6.29 paragraph 6, p. 1: • All vessels having priority of passage must report to the lock staff when entering the area within „Claiming the right to priority of passage” means that a 1,500 metres of the lock. Example 3 vessel which has the right to priority has passed before • For determining the order of passage, the actual arri- vessels without priority waiting in the lock area in order to val of a vessel in the lock area (at the C4 sign with the Order of arrival be locked through before them. additional sign ) or the order of arrival as observed by the shift supervisors shall apply. Legend for the examples shown: • Between 7 hrs and 20 hrs, a vessel which has priority of passage may pass vessels waiting in the lock area which have no priority and thus make use of its right Order of passage through Vessel with priority of passage to priority. In this case, a vessel without priority of passage must afterwards be locked through in the Vessel without priority of passage same direction (Article 6.29 paragraph 6 of the Vessel claiming its priority MoselSchPV)..

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