Major Shipping Canals Around The World

Suez Canal

A ship canal is an artifical waterway created to service major water transport vehicles. These canals are usually used for transporting goods over large distances as transport through waterways is the cheapest way among all other forms of transport.

The earliest example of canal is Grand Canal of China. It is considered as the oldest and still working canal system in the modern world. Its development started around 5th Cenutry BCE.

Name of the Canal	Length	Country	Started	Link
Saint Lawrence Seaway	600 km	Canada-United States	1959	Montreal with Lake Superior.
White Sea-Baltic Canal	227 km	Russia	1893
Suez Canal	193.30 km	Egypt	1869	Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.
Rhine-Main-Danube Canal	171 km	Germany	1992	River Rhine (North Sea) and River Danube (Black Sea)
Volga-Don Canal	101 km	Russia	1952	Black Sea, Azov Sea and Caspian Sea.
Kiel Canal	98 km	Germany	1895	North Sea and Baltic Sea
Houston Ship Channel	80 km	United States	1914	Houston, Texas to the Gulf of Mexico
Panama Canal	77 km	Panama	1914	Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean
Danube-Black Sea Canal	64.4 km	Romania	1984	Danube to the Black Sea
Manchester Ship Canal	58 km	United Kingdom	1894	Manchester to Irish Sea
Welland Canal	43.4	Canada	1932	Lake Erie to Lake Ontario