Phone and email bookings
Operators still need to know whom to contact, then wait for a reply before anything is confirmed.
Independent & white-label · Europe
One place to find, compare and book docking infrastructure.
River Atlas is a digital layer for Europe's inland waterways. Infrastructure owners register and manage their assets. Shipowners and operators search, compare, book and keep every booking in one overview — instead of across phone calls, emails and spreadsheets.
Location
Rheinkai Nord · Berth 4
Vessel
MS Danubia · 110 × 11.4 m
Window
14 Apr, 08:00 – 18:00
Amenities
Water · OPS · Passengers
Status
Confirmed
The situation today
Booking a berth is harder than it should be
Even where digital booking exists, the market is fragmented. Cities, ports and infrastructure owners run separate systems — sometimes several within the same city.
Availability is invisible
Open slots are rarely published, so planning a route means asking around location by location.
Nothing is comparable
Pricing and services — water, wastewater, fuel, shore power, passenger access — sit in different systems and documents.
Owners lose the data
Manual entry makes availability hard to manage, and information about utilization and demand is simply lost.
One platform, two sides
Built for both ends of the quay
The same organisation may own infrastructure, operate vessels, or do both — so one account covers both roles. No separate systems, no duplicate logins.
Infrastructure owners
Digitise an asset that was managed by phone calls and spreadsheets, and give it a clear profile, visible availability and a defined booking process.
- Register locations with position, vessel limits and photos
- Publish amenities and structured pricing
- Set availability manually or sync it with internal systems
- Auto-confirm bookings or approve them one by one
- See utilization, demand and the services customers ask for
Shipowners & operators
Search once, compare properly, and keep every confirmation in a single overview organised around your operation — not around each owner's internal structure.
- Register vessels once, with dimensions and service needs
- See only berths your vessel actually fits
- Compare nearby alternatives on price, availability and amenities
- Book with a clear summary, reference and receipt
- Track upcoming, pending, completed and cancelled bookings
How it works
From account to confirmed booking
The core journey, end to end.
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Create an account
Sign up and choose what you want to do: register infrastructure, register a ship, or use both sides of the platform.
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Register a docking location
Name, address and map position, maximum length, width and draft, amenities, pricing, availability and photos.
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Register a ship
Name, operator, flag and vessel type, main dimensions, and the services the vessel needs on arrival.
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Search on the map
Enter a city and see the docking locations around it, with frequently used locations and recent searches close at hand.
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Compare the alternatives
Unsuitable berths drop out automatically. Compare what is left — and nearby options — on price, availability, compatibility, amenities and distance.
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Book and manage
Submit the request, get it confirmed automatically or by the owner, then find it under My Bookings with its summary, reference and receipt.
Matching, not searching
One shared list of services
Water, wastewater, fuel, shore power, passenger embarkation — they appear in three places: what a location offers, what a vessel needs, and what a booking requires.
Because all three draw from the same list, the platform matches needs against availability automatically. If a vessel is too long for a berth, or a location does not provide an essential service, the operator sees it immediately — which means fewer unsuitable booking requests for the owner.
Fresh water
Wastewater
Fuel & alternative fuel
Onshore power (OPS)
Waste disposal
Passenger embarkation
Loading area
Coach access
Filtered by vessel
Length, width and draft are checked against each location's limits before results are shown.
Nearby alternatives
A berth a few hundred metres away may be cheaper or better equipped — side by side, not buried.
Real availability
Open time blocks with the price for the selected window, instead of a request into the unknown.
One booking record
Location, ship, window, status, price, amenities, reference and confirmation document.
Dashboards
The data that is lost today
Every figure is derived from the bookings themselves. Over time this becomes an analytical tool we intend to develop with our users.
For infrastructure owners
- Total bookings count
- Upcoming arrivals schedule
- Estimated revenue €
- Utilization rate %
- Most requested amenities ranked
- Recent booking requests live
For shipowners & operators
- Upcoming & past bookings list
- Total docking spend €
- Bookings by ship per vessel
- Frequently used locations ranked
- Booking patterns trend
- Receipts & confirmations archive
Open by design
A layer, not a walled garden
We are not trying to replace every existing system. The platform is open and non-exclusive — list your locations here and keep using whatever else you need.
riveratlas.eu
The platform
This site — what River Atlas is, who it is for, and how to get involved.
app.riveratlas.eu
The application
Accounts, locations, vessels, search, bookings and dashboards.
api.riveratlas.eu
The API
For integrations and white-label partners syncing availability with their own systems.
Get involved
Be part of this journey
A practical digital layer for the inland waterways market: easy for infrastructure owners to join, genuinely useful for shipowners and operators.