Corinth Canal

Corinth Canal

It is the Corinth Canal

Of the most beautiful and the most serious marine channels in the world for lack of space in which the ships pass due to the very small channel width, as ships need to help small ships to the West led to the other.

This channel is used for the passage of cruise ships, linking Corinth Saronic Gulf of Corinth Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea in Greece, and has a length of 6.4 km and displayed 21.3 meters.

It was starting to build this channel in 1881 and opened in 1893, and pass it in the present day 11 thousand ships annually.

Because of the narrow channel, navigational problems and periodic closure to repair landslides from the walls, the channel has failed to achieve the desired traffic, and no longer has great economic importance, and the channel now used mainly for tourist traffic.

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