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Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands)

Dutch waterways authority

Last modified: 2006-05-27 by jarig bakker
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[Rijkswaterstaat penant] image by Jarig Bakker, 19 May 2006

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Rijkswaterstaat penant

Above image is based on a picture foundon the Binnenvaart site. Quite simple, it is blue with a thin white horizontal stripe in the middle above which is placed the name ‘rijkswaterstaat’ in lower case letters.

Surely this penant appears on service vessels but I have not yet found a photo.   (I suppose there is a flag as well but I still have to encounter one.)

Site of Rijkswaterstaat (restrictively translated as ‘government waterways authority’) is here, well-known as a department of the Dutch transport ministry and responsible for roads and waterways in the largest sense.  As this includes the dykes, the importance of this body cannot be underestimated.  In all, Rijkswaterstaat has about 10.000 employees.

Since 1 January 2006  it is a government agency with a view to heightening efficiency.
Jan Mertens, 23 Mar 2006