内河航运是最古老的运输方式之一,具有运量大、成本低、能耗小、占地少等优点,不仅在人类社会发展历史中发挥过巨大作用,而且在现代文明的今天也受到普遍重视,德国的莱茵河和美国的密西西比河就是现代社会内河航运开发的成功范例。尽管如此,人们对于内河航运的重要地位常常由于 Inland shipping is one of the oldest modes of transport. It has the advantages of large capacity, low cost, low energy consumption and small area. It not only played an important role in the history of human social development, but also in the modern civilization today The emphasis on the Rhine in Germany and the Mississippi in the United States is a successful example of the development of inland shipping in modern society. Nonetheless, the importance of people for inland shipping is often attributed