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It will be interesting if the Danube to Mediterranean canal is constructed. Balkan states do not agree with each other on much, but depriving the Turks of toll

• BurningFrog 6y ago
  17 billion Euros and 6 months construction sounds very cheap and simple.
  • dmurray 6y ago
    6 years. But that still seems feasible. The Danube can't take anywhere near the throughput of the Suez Canal, though. The Rhein-Main-Donau canal, one of the bottlenecks on the route, sees about 6 million tons of shipping a year and can handle boats with a draft of 2 metres.[0] The Suez Canal handles the same tonnage every day and handles ships up to 20m draft. So this would not make a dent in shipping from Suez to Rotterdam, it would just be a nice bonus for anyone delivering from the Med to, say, Belgrade. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Danube_Canal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Dan...
• input_sh 6y ago
  > Danube to Mediterranean canal For the curious, it'd follow a river in Serbia and connect to a river in North Macedonia. Approximately 100 kilometres apart, assuming a straight line. That means about half the length of Suez (193 kilometres) and slightly longer than the length of the Panama canal (82 kilometres), though I'm assuming riverbeds would have to be expanded in some places.