Sentence examples for shipping canal from inspiring English sources

Descend via steep shale steps to the banks of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, and you'll discover the grassy towpath of a once vital shipping canal.

To keep them from getting into the Great Lakes through the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal, stretches of it are electrified.

The reservoir, about 160 miles (257 kilometres) long, was constructed in 1950 51 in connection with the building of the Volga-Don Shipping Canal.

His advocacy of a shipping canal through Central America met with success with the start of American-led construction of the Panama Canal in 1904.

He even helped persuade Washington to close a shipping canal that he had complained for decades was destroying the wetlands that protected the parish from hurricanes.

Six years ago he bought an old brewery and grain silo on the shipping canal leading to the port of Antwerp.

Several shipping canals interlace the landscape and connect the river systems.

An extensive network of shipping canals and waterways links the major rivers.

The Karakum Canal, completed in 1967, is one of the world's largest irrigation and shipping canals.

Yet water in Manchester's ship canal sat untapped.

Later an even shorter ship canal was built to IJmuiden.