This project investigates port utilization patterns across 83 ports of interest along European waterways to identify locations with the strongest strategic potential for United Waterways. The project addresses a critical gap in empirical, port-level utilization data across European inland waterway networks and finds that the average utilization across all 83 ports stands at 16.6%, with only 12-18% of ports operating above the 40% utilization threshold, and approximately one third recording zero utilization across all three observation weeks. Using regression analysis, the report hypothesizes the most influential variables that cause these utilization rates.