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The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, lit. 'North–East Sea–Canal', formerly the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98-kilometer-long (61 mi) fresh water canal that links the North Sea (Nordsee) to the Baltic Sea (Ostsee). It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel to the Holtenau district of Kiel. It was ...
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 is the world’s busiest man-made water-way navigable by seagoing ships. It is used by a similar number of ships as the Panama and Suez Canals together. However, this also includes smaller ships. Linking two seas, the canal directly connects the North Sea ports with the ports of the Baltic Sea region.
Oct 7, 2024 · Kiel, city, capital (1945) of Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), northern Germany. Kiel is a port on both sides of the Kiel Fjord, an inlet of the western Baltic Sea, and lies at the eastern end of the Kiel Canal.
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, the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal in German, formerly the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, connects the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel through Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.
Live information about the current state of the Kiel Canal. © Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (Kiel Canal) Impressum. Schleusenverfügbarkeitsanzeige
Called the ‘Eider-Canal’, this artificially-built 43 kilometres long canal formed part of a 175 kilometres waterway from Kiel to the Eider River’s mouth at Tönning on the Schleswig-Holstein west coast.
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.
