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The Kiel Canal is one of the world's most frequented artificial waterways with an annual average of 32,000 ships (90 daily), transporting approximately 100 million tonnes of goods. [1] Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River Eider by the short Gieselau Canal. [2]
Kiel Canal, important waterway in northern Germany, extending eastward for 98 km (61 miles) to connect the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The canal constitutes the safest, most convenient, shortest, and cheapest shipping route between the two seas and is a key route for Baltic shipping.
The 98.7 kilometres long Kiel-Canal was opened in 1895 – almost 125 years ago. It is the link between the North Sea at Brunsbüttel and the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. GET A SHORT OVERVIEW ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE KIEL-CANAL. COMPLETE HISTORY.
THE Kiel Canal (Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal) links the North Sea with the Baltic, from Brunsbuttelkoog, at the mouth of the River Elbe, to Kiel-Holtenau, in Kiel Harbour. The length of the canal is about fifty- three nautical miles.
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UCA United Canal Agency GmbH is your shipping agency at the Kiel-Canal – the most frequented artificial waterway in the world. We attend to vessels as fully licensed Kiel-Canal agents and as port agents in the related ports – Kiel, Rendsburg and Brunsbüttel.
The Kiel Canal is one of the busiest artificial waterways in the world. Up to 30,000 ships pass through the almost 100-kilometer-long canal every year.
The Kiel Canal (or Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) is the busiest manmade waterway in the world; an average of one hundred ships pass through it every day. The canal crosses Schleswig-Holstein, linking the North Sea and the Baltic.
The Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) is the world's busiest artificial waterway linking the North and Baltic Seas - from Brunsbüttel to Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein.
The history of the Kiel Canal. Passing under the Levensau high bridge in 1911. The Kiel Canal had a predecessor even in the late 18th century, the Schleswig-Holstein Canal, built by the Danish king Christian VIII, who ruled the country at the time.
