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Canal de Calais

 
 
Information about the waterway

The Canal de Calais is a commercial waterway and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Europe. It runs for 30 kilometres through 3 locks from Calais (where it joins the English Channel) to Calais - Aa Jonction (where it joins the River Aa).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Calais
Entrance to the port
Calais Marée de Verrouillage 1.39 kilometres 0 locks
Pont de Rue Lamy 1.48 kilometres 1 lock
Écluse de la Batellerie 2.39 kilometres 1 lock
Pont d'Écluse de la Batellerie 2.41 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Ferroviaire de Gare de Calais Ville 2.67 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Mollien 2.68 kilometres 2 locks
Passerelle Mollien 2.69 kilometres 2 locks
Pont au Pied Quai de la Gendarmerie 3.23 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Vic 3.25 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Saint-Pierre (Calais) 3.76 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Curie 4.38 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Ferroviaire de Les Fontinettes 4.69 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Route des Estuaires - L'Européenne 4.82 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Coulogne 5.82 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Rue du Calvaire 7.36 kilometres 2 locks
Pont Les Attaques 10.54 kilometres 2 locks
Pont sans Pareil 13.31 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de l'Autoroute des Anglais 15.35 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Route d'Oye 19.97 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Rue d'Hennuin 23.92 kilometres 2 locks
Écluse d'Hennuin 24.46 kilometres 2 locks
Pont de Rue du Canal de Calais 28.05 kilometres 3 locks
Calais - Aa Jonction
Junction of Canal de Calais and River Aa
30 kilometres 3 locks
 
 
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External websites
 VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe
The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
 RORO Ferry terminal, Calais, France. — associated with Calais
RORO Ferry terminal, Calais, France.
 360 view — associated with Pont Les Attaques
Les Attaques, Northern France.
 
Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Canal de Calais

The Canal de Calais connects the Aa River near Ruminghem to the inner basins of the Port of Calais. Many boats enter the French canal system through the port of Calais and this canal. It is 30 km long and has 3 locks.

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[Nord-Pas-de-Calais] been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais borders the English Channel (west) [Calais] the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture [Seine–Nord Europe Canal] of Compiègne, to the Canal Dunkerque-Escaut, crossing the regions of Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The 107-kilometre-long canal will connect the Seine [Arques, Pas-de-Calais] lies on the border of the departments of Pas-de-Calais and Nord. The town is crossed by the Neufossé Canal, which connects the rivers Aa and Lys. The commune [Canal du Nord] Sensée Canal at Arleux. The French government, in partnership with coal-mining companies in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, developed the canal to [Calais Jungle] The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and migrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France that existed from January [Fontinettes boat lift] built in 1888 on the Canal de Neufossé and connected the River Aa and the Neuffossé Canal in Arques, near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais. The boat lift was [Siege of Calais (1940)] The Siege of Calais (1940) was a battle for the port of Calais during the Battle of France in 1940. The siege was fought at the same time as the Battle [Aa (river, France)] (18 mi), it is a navigable waterway connecting with the Canal de Calais leading to Calais and the Canal de Bourbourg leading to Dunkirk, as shown by the map
 
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