Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt

A Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt is a federal German agency, responsible for the administration of federal navigable waters and for the regulation of vessel traffic.

The thirty-nine offices are supervised by the national Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes and accountable to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In total the offices cover 23,000 km² of maritime waters and 7,350 km of inland waterways.