Inland Waterway Shipping of Oversized Cargo

Oversize cargo transportation market is growing every year, because of increased quality requirements to the energy, chemistry and other industries` spare parts and components. To ensure high quality performance, much more spareparts should be coming pre-assembled from the manufacturers (factories producing original spare units). Oversized cargo haulage by road or railway is very complicated due to non-standard parameters and weights of the transported units. Inland waterways can offer a good alternative to road and railway for the oversize/overweight shipping. The Article analyses potential and feasibility for inland waterway shipping of oversize cargo, and adjustment of Inland waterways facilities for oversize freight.