Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, also called Europa Canal, runs between the German towns of Bamburg and Kelheim via the historic city of Nuremberg. The canal is 171 km (106 miles) long and runs from Bamberg on the Main River (a tributary of the Rhine River) to Kelheim on the...

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Constructed in the 19th century, Göta Canal (pronounced yeu-ta) is one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken in Sweden. The 190 km (120 mi) long manmade waterway passes through several lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg (Göteborg)...

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One of the most important shipping canal construction, the Manchester Ship Canal work was started in the second half of the 19th century which is also known as the ‘Late Victorian Period.’ The canal is situated in Manchester, an important regional city which is the...

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Opened in 1914, Houston Ship Channel, one of the busiest waterways in the United States connects Houston, Texas, with the Gulf of Mexico, passing through the former Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay. Currently, the 50-mile-long channel is 40 feet deep with a minimum...

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The Russian Belomorsko-baltiysky Kanal or the White Sea Canal, an important waterway, was constructed between 1930 and 1933 largely by penal labour. The canal starts in the north from the White Sea, passes through various smaller water bodies like rivers and lakes,...

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Kiel Canal, between the North and the Baltic Sea situated in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is 98 km long freshwater canal and is the world’s busiest artificial waterway, more than 40,000 merchant vessels and nearly 20,000 pleasure craft pass through it each...

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