supplies held in barges and coasting-vessels engaging in transport within national frontiers, on condition that it is possible for the competent authorities to keep a check on such supplies and provided that the supplies can be made available immediately.

supplies held in barges and coasting-vessels engaging in transport within national frontiers, on condition that it is possible for the competent authorities to keep a check on such supplies and provided that the supplies can be made available immediately.

The transport fees will be established at the level of competing transport modes, in particular transport by railcar and barge.

What might have seemed scenes from dramatic films until a few years ago are now images we see daily in the media: ramshackle old lighters, disused barges, sailing boats from the time of Sandokan the pirate and overflowing dinghies bring hundreds upon hundreds of despairing people to our shores who have often spent copious amounts of money to get that far and are subjected to days and days of deprivation and hardship. Many of them, men, women and children, die during the journey or are thrown into the sea by their captains, as happened along the coasts of Sicily and Puglia.

The Directive applies to all boatmasters of inland-waterway vessels: self-propelled barges, tugs, pusher craft, barges, pushed convoys or side-by-side formations intended for the transport of goods or passengers, except for boatmasters of vessels for goods transport which are under 20 metres in length and vessels for passenger transport which carry no more than 12 people.

(h) "dumb barge" means any vessel, not being a tank barge, intended for the carriage of goods and built to be towed, and: - either having no motive power of its own,