Multimodal freight disruption intelligence

FR · DE · CH · NL — ROTTERDAM → BASEL

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Streamlining the corridor that moves a continent.

The corridor

1,230 km. Four countries. 285 million tonnes a year.

Barge

Rail

Road

FR · DE · CH · NL — ROTTERDAM → BASEL — 285M tonnes / year

285M

tonnes / year

40%

modal share by water

4

countries · FR DE CH NL

1

choke point: Kaub

KAUB GAUGE · JULY 2018

350 cm

Normal navigation. Full loads moving.

October 2018 · Kaub

Then one summer, the river disappeared.

No rain for months. Keep scrolling — and watch what every barge operator on the Rhine watched, week by week, with no forecast and no plan B.

The world's press arrived at our river.

2018 · the record

This is what 25 centimetres looks like.

2018 · the record

Click any cutting to open the article in a new tab · hover and press ⇄ to swap in your own screenshot. Sources: ourrhine.eu — Low Water Crisis: When the Rhine Runs Dry ↗ · The New York Times (4 Nov 2018) · The Business Times (5 Nov 2018)

The bill

€0.0B

in industrial losses, 0.4% of German GDP — and 132 days of disrupted shipping in one year.

Force majeure declared

BASFINEOSSOLVAYARCELORMITTAL

August 2022 · Four years later

And then it happened again.

32 cm

Kaub · 15 Aug 2022

−27%

river freight · Aug 2022 vs 2021

Lowest

tonnage since reunification

2022 · the repeat

Read the retrospective — ourrhine.eu →

Twice in four years — and CCNR projects container throughput on this corridor falling 20% by 2050. The next low-water event is already forming. Still, nobody gets a warning.

Live · Try it on stage

You hold the river.

Drag the Kaub gauge down yourself and watch the corridor's capacity collapse. This is the cliff edge every operator lives on — and in 2018 and 2022 nobody saw it coming until they were over it.

Kaub gauge — drag it

150 cm

SURCHARGES ACTIVE

25 — 2018 record60 safe350 — normal

62%

fleet load capacity

2.1×

freight cost (vs normal)

The Gap

Three modes. Four countries. Zero shared intelligence.

How the three transport modes currently operate in disconnected silos across the corridor, making coordinated action impossible.

Barge operators

Isolated view

Track Kaub gauges individually. React when it's already too late. No predictive layer across the corridor.

Rail · SNCF / DB / SBB

Siloed networks

Operate national systems. Surge demand from barge disruptions hits them as a surprise, not a forecast.

Road / trucking

Reactive overflow

Receive overflow freight with no advance notice. Last-mile pricing chaos during disruption windows.

No product connects all three modes across FR/DE/CH/NL as a single intelligence layer.
Existing tools (Pegelonline, VNF) give current water levels — not 2–4 week predictive forecasts.
Port operators at Strasbourg, Basel, Rotterdam work with different systems and different languages.
RiverSat (EarthDaily) addresses single-mode water level forecasting only — no modal cascade intelligence.

The real problem

The water was only the trigger. The damage came from the blind cascade.

Three transport modes, four countries — and zero shared intelligence between them. In 2018 and again in 2022, each one found out the hard way, weeks apart.

DAY 0

Barge

The river drops

Operators watch the Kaub gauge individually and react when it is already too late. By the time it's critical, capacity is already gone — there is no predictive layer across the corridor.

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+ DAYS

Rail · SNCF / DB / SBB

Surge hits as a surprise

Overflow demand slams national rail systems (SNCF / DB / SBB) with no forecast. Surge demand hits them as a surprise, slots sell out, and cargo queues. Three networks, three languages, no shared signal.

⟶

+ WEEKS

Road

Last-mile chaos

Trucking absorbs overflow freight with no advance notice. Last-mile pricing chaos during disruption windows causes costs to spiral exactly when shippers can least absorb them.

The cascade is predictable. The response never was. Until now.

The solution

LogiRhein Live sees it coming — 2 to 4 weeks ahead.

One intelligence layer across all three modes, built entirely on free and open European space data.

EO layer

Eyes from orbit

Sentinel-1 SAR + Sentinel-2 optical track Rhine water extent continuously — cloud-independent, free, 5-day revisit.

Climate layer

2–4 week forecast

ERA5 + Copernicus seasonal forecasts turn basin precipitation anomalies into a days-to-critical countdown.

Modal layer

Cascade modelling

SNCF / DB / SBB open APIs + road freight indices model the overflow before it materialises.

AI layer

Plain-language briefs

Trilingual (FR / DE / EN) daily disruption briefings with rerouting recommendations per cargo type.

LOGIRHEIN LIVE · DAILY BRIEF · FR/DE/EN

Under the hood

Five layers. Built in order.

From data foundation to dashboard — one pipeline, end to end. The demo you'll see is already running on layers 0 and 1.

DATA IN — AIS stream · Hub'Eau · Sentinel Hub

Built first · live

Physical infrastructure & data foundation

PostgreSQL — MMSI, positions, draughtS3 — satellite imagery cacheDocker — API + DB containers

Built second · live

Observer — logistics observatory

MapLibre GL JS — open map engineWebSockets — AISStream live feedHub'Eau — river level APISentinel Hub — EO acquisition

Built third

Data enrichment & anomaly detection

Geofencing — port terminalsData fusion — SAR × AIS correlationHydro checker — low-water alerts → rerouting

Built fourth

Intelligent resolution

AI / LLM — reasoning + language bridgeRoot cause — weather / event correlationResilience — what-if lock closuresRerouting engine

Built last

LogiRhein Live dashboard & UI

.NET + MapLibre globe frontendLive brief — trilingual FR/DE/ENTelemetry — barge status, alertsSimulation panel — rerouting control

The market

Who pays — and how much.

Segment 1

Port logistics operators

Contargo, Danser, Bolloré, Port de Strasbourg terminals — disruption forecasts for berth scheduling and rail slot pre-booking.

€800–2,000 /month

~400 Rhine operators

Segment 2

Industrial shippers

BASF, Dow, Solvay, ArcelorMittal — one disruption can halt production. Budget sits with the Supply Chain VP.

€20K–80K /year

~200 large Rhine shippers

Segment 3

Freight forwarders

DB Schenker, Rhenus — multimodal brokers rerouting cargo at short notice, currently paying spot premiums.

€300–600 /month

~5,000 EU IWT firms

01 · SaaS

Subscriptions

Free public dashboard → Pro €300–600/mo → Enterprise €2K–8K/mo with full API.

€1.2M ARR @ 50 enterprise clients

02 · Data

Licensing

Disruption feeds for commodity traders and insurance underwriters — Rhine outages move energy markets.

€200–500K recurring at scale

03 · Grants

Non-dilutive EU funding

Copernicus downstream (ESA BIC Grand Est) + TERRA Horizon Europe extension.

€150–300K runway · €0 data cost

CEF Transport Reflow Call — €1.1 billion for resilient freight corridors

Opens 18 June 2026 — next week · closes 6 Oct

Roadmap & the ask

Demo first. Pilot fast. Own the corridor.

WE ARE HERE

Phase 1 · Sprint · Q2–Q3 2026

Working MVP

Live on GitHub Pages
Kaub alert subscription demo
Factory 2026 + AS26 pitch

Phase 2 · Pilot · Q4 2026

First customer

Contargo Strasbourg pilot
CEF Reflow grant application
Sentinel-2 water layer in production

Phase 3 · Product · 2027

Full platform

AI briefing engine (Gemini)
SNCF / DB rail integration
Trilingual dashboard · CCNR partnership

Phase 4 · Scale · 2028+

Beyond the Rhine

Full cascade model live
3 enterprise clients → €1M ARR
Rhine–Danube expansion

€500K

Pre-seed ask

To validate the platform: €120K software & AI · €100K founder buffer · €40K pilots & BD · €35K infra · €55K legal & setup. Milestones: MVP, 3–5 pilot agreements, proven 14–28-day predictive accuracy → Series Seed €1.5–3M.

13.5%

equity offered

€3.70M

post-money

The Team

The minds behind LogiRhein Live.

Business Model

Aasta

Revenue streams, pricing, market segmentation, and go-to-market strategy.

Up and Down Link

Aruna

Satellite data pipeline, EO data integration, and ground-to-platform architecture.

Strategy

Nina

Product positioning, competitive landscape, EU funding pathway, and stakeholder engagement.

Why here · Why us

Ce n'est pas un fleuve quelconque.This is our river — and we start here.

15 min from this stage

Port de Strasbourg

France's second-largest river port. We walked its terminals and spoke with port staff: no satellite or EO-based service exists there today. Our pilot customer, Contargo, operates two terminals on site.

Since 1815 · Palais du Rhin

CCNR — headquartered here

The Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine — the world's oldest international organisation — governs this corridor from Strasbourg. Our data partner of choice sits in this city.

Built at ISU

Space, applied at home

Born in the AS26 course at the International Space University, on the TERRA Horizon Europe axis — European space data solving a European problem, starting on the river outside the window.

« L'avenir du Rhin, livré aujourd'hui. »The future of the Rhine — delivered today.

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