 Shipping is possible on the lower Prut and Nistru rivers, but water transportation plays only a modest role in the country's transportation system.In 1990 a total of 317 million tonkilometers of freight were carried on inland waterways as compared with 15,007 million ton-kilometers on railways and 1,673 million ton-kilometers on roads.The movement of manufactured goods and of passengers on all means of transportation started to decline in 1989.