Why Europe is Building a $34BN Transport Mega-Hub
Infrastructure 30 Apr 2025
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The €7BN mega-canal that will reshape Europe
France is building a massive new canal to connect some of Europe’s biggest ports. 107km long, it’ll join the Seine river basin to the massive waterway networks of Belgium and the Netherlands. Seven huge locks are being constructed, along with over 60 road and rail crossings and a 1.3km viaduct.
When complete, it’ll transform how goods are shifted across the region, and it’s having to be built very carefully, too, through an area with rich biodiversity that was once a warzone. This is what makes Seine-Nord Europe Canal the largest megaproject of its kind anywhere on the continent.
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