Voies navigables de France (French pronunciation: [vwa naviɡabl də fʁɑ̃s], VNF, English: Navigable Waterways of France) is the French navigation authority responsible for the management of the majority of France's inland waterways network and the associated facilities—towpaths, commercial and leisure ports, lock-keeper's houses and other structures.

The headquarters of VNF are in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais with local offices throughout France.

The French natural and man-made waterways network is the largest in Europe[1] extending to over 8,500-kilometre (5,300 mi) of which VNF manages the navigable sections.

Approximately 20% of the network is suitable for commercial boats of over 1000 tonnes[3] and the VNF has an ongoing programme of maintenance and modernisation to increase depth of waterways, widths of locks and headroom under bridges to support France's strategy of encouraging freight onto water as part of her sustainable development programme—a survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers[when?]

[citation needed] A major current initiative is the cross-border Seine–Nord Europe Canal project, connecting the Seine and the Scheldt, which will provide a continuous wide-gauge navigation from Le Havre to Antwerp.