River Moselle is expected to remain closed for shipping traffic until the end of March 2025

This is going to seriously impact the tourist industry in that region. First, the tour boats won't get clearance to run until the commercial traffic is moved, so it may be late April before that happens. Second, that's going to push tourists to trains and cars, and there's not enough infrastructure to make up the difference. Look for added tourist traffic on the Rhine come spring.

Oh gosh I hadn't heard about the accident. What a mess ! So sorry for everyone whose livelihoods are affected.

Thanks for advising us of this significant event and its impact.

Is there a possibility that riverboat cruises on the Mosel will turn into bus trips?

Saw that on the news yesterday. Wondering if any river cruises got stuck along there doing Xmas market cruises?
Going to have to be bus tours if your river cruise was supposed to be on the Mosel, I think.

If repairs can be pulled off as planned - by the end of March - there may not be much impact on river cruises or general tourism. Easter is April 20. Day cruise operations don't typically begin until mid-late April. Before that, off-season visitors to Trier, Saarburg etc. wouldn't be arriving by boat anyway.

I believe "end of March" on April 1 when every repair is finally finished and the first ship was going through successfully. There is winter in between and so on.

Good luck for the engineers and the affected companies and people.

"We have calculated four months if everything goes well and, above all, we don't get any significant flooding."

Director of WSA in an interview with n-tv (Germen video report).

Update:
After the accident at the lock in Müden, the first ships were able to sail down the Moselle towards the Rhine by a temporary fallback lock. The responsible persons at the Mosel-Saar-Lahn Waterways and Shipping Authority want to have all locked ships back in operations by New Year's Eve.

This does not mean that the lock is finally repaired.

More details.

Wow, MarkK thanks for keeping us posted. I’m so unplugged from news in general that I hadn’t heard about the accident.

that's better than first thought. Good news. I am glad that the plan B was in place.