A ship canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein linking the North Sea at Brunsbuttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. Opened in 1895 and widened in the early twentieth century, it lets shipping bypass the Jutland peninsula and the Danish straits, shortening the North Sea to Baltic crossing by 460 kilometres, and is one of the most heavily used artificial waterways on earth by ship count.
Facts
Completion Year SignificanceCarries roughly 32,000 ships a year, about 90 a day, more traffic by vessel count than either the Suez or Panama Canal, though those carry far more cargo per transit. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kiel Canal
WikipediaOperation
It is one of the world's most frequented artificial waterways, with an annual average of 32,000 ships (90 daily)
History
The canal reduces the journey between the North and Baltic Seas by 460 km (290 mi) by allowing ships to bypass the Jutland peninsula
Introduction, traffic volume
It 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.
In Group: Ship Canals, Lead sentence
The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98-kilometer-long (61 mi) freshwater canal that links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.
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