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The site about Barges Barges are nowadays widely found employed as houseboats and leisure craft aswell as in their traditional freight moving role. Sizes of craft vary from small canal craft trhough to large European river craft, capable of moving very large cargoes along the EU's major waterways. At our site we try to look at barges from all angles, in their pleasure and commercial settings and we hope you are able to find the info you require..

EU Barges - Canal and River Boat Holidays

The word 'barge' is a generic term that is applied to many, many different designs of craft intended for use on canals, rivers, estuaries and inshore coastal waters. They are, however, all characterised by certain criteria and a dictionary definition of 'barge' would include the facts that they are flat-bottomed, have a shallow draught, are long in relation to their width and are primarily used for transporting heavy or cumbersome freight on inland waterways. Once these basic criteria have been satisfied designs and localised names evolved to meet the needs of particular localities, freight and trade.

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