Japan, an island country is the second largest shipowning country in our series. It is a maritime nation located in Northeast Asia, surrounded on all sides by the sea and is also the first non-Western nation to modernize through its own efforts. Japan’s now modern...

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After a whole amazing and informative series- ‘The Series of Shipping Canals’, we have come up with another interesting and enjoyable sequence which will tell you a lot more about the competition between ship-owning countries that how they have been pushing each other...

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China was among the first countries to use waterway transportation and the Grand Canal, also known as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site was built. It was built for Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich...

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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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