Basel is located by the sea (Swiss Stories 2025, by Stephan Rappo) - Swiss Press Award
Stephan Rappo
Unterwegs in den Schweizerischen Rheinhäfen - auf einem Frachtschiff mit einem Schifflotsen auf dem Rhein Basel, 17. April 2024
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2025
Stephan Rappo
Basel lies by the sea. Not on a map with national borders drawn at some point in time, but on a map over which trading areas are laid out like an invisible network. The Rhine ports are the transport hub on the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa freight corridor. This connection to the sea, to longing, to international trade flows – how much of this is visible in the harbor district?
