In the meantime, the water has dropped so far that the Krommerijnder is no longer in the beam hole, the original berth of the barge. “We had just picked up speed when we came back to discover that the water had receded too far to allow us to return to the berth. That is why we now have the barge at the boarding point, which is the reason that we can still provide sailings between Wijk bij Duurstede and Cothen. Otherwise we would have had to cancel all of them,” says Kauffman.