An incredibly expensive project, will it be a success?

@terryhoath1983

4 ай бұрын

This video is complete and utter drivel. Why are you showing images of sea-going container ships 16 containers wide, when the Seine and the Scheldt can barely take class Va and Vb barges (3 containers wide) and L'Oise which links Compiègne to Paris has several locks and numerous low bridges and is limited to péniches. If they ever get round to doing the necessary work on L'Oise, where do you go from there ? You will not be able to take the barges up the Seine because you are confronted with dozens of bridges in Paris most of which have protected status. There is little point in going down the Seine. The River makes massive loops taking 250 miles to cover the 100 miles to Le Harve and with 5 locks in the way. The route from Antwerp or Dunkerk/Dunkerque to Le Harve or Rouen is down the English Channel (One lock into the sea if using the floating harbours or no locks if using the tidal harbours.). The Seine is also subject to sudden and dramatic flooding making the river effectively unusable at these times. Apart from the speed of the water, the high water makes passing under some of the bridges an impossibility. The purpose of this canal is to give a new river port close to Paris a link to the Low Countries canal system and nothing more. Trans-shipment to smaller barges will be required for further progress on the French waterways. This canal WILL NOT "change how Europe trades forever", neither is this project "incredibly" expensive. They are building it so it is perfectly credible. It is NOT an "Artificial River" ... it is a canal There is talk of the barges being able to carry 300 containers. That is not what YOU think. It is 300 x T20 equivalence, or 150 x 40 ft containers. Total weight of the containers is also a factor as the canal has a draft of only 11ft 6 inches meaning that the total number of containers on a barge will often be considerably less than 150 containers. There is nothing special about this canal. There are already hundreds of miles of canals to this standard in the European Union, especially in Germany. It is the locks that are the bugger. The principal purpose of this canal is to eliminate the tunnels on the Canal du Nord and Canal St Quintin which are major bottlenecks, and on the St Quintin, barges are pulled through the tunnel in long trains by electric traction to prevent the build up of fumes which used to make that tunnel absolutely disgusting. If you are going to do this kind of thing, then do some proper research and FOR CHRIST SAKE learn how to pronounce the place names. Go to "Google French English Translate ". As I am sure that you are unable to use diacritics, type "Compienge" into the English box. The French spelling, "Compiègne" will come up in the French box. Click on the loudspeaker at the bottom of the French box and listen. Do it several more times and even though this is Google and it isn't quite there, it is not far off. Do the same with the other names.

I live in France and had no idea about this! I mean, I am in the deep south mind you. I want to give you kudos for trying your hardest on the names, French pronunciation is très difficile.

Canal construction is far more expensive than railroads, but once they're completed, moving freight via canal is far more energy efficient than by rail (let alone by truck). These projects are a great way to protect the environment.

@VanillaMacaron551

4 ай бұрын

This interesting and something like this should have been included in the video script.

I said for year here in the U.K. we need to expand our canals this would be fantastic for French and German relations too. We need to do this all across Europe and expand our freight trains

@MrToradragon

Ай бұрын

Isn't the main obstacle for inland navigation in GB the fact that the seaports can be reached within few hours by lorry or train from virtually every major city or town in the UK? I don!t think that Leeds Ship Canal would make sense. Nor I think it would be particularly good idea to upgrade your narrow boat canals to even Class O waterways, not to mention Vb that the canal Seine-Nord is in. It would totally destroy your current canal network. Not to mention that such endeavour would only make sense if you plan on building seagoing barges that would be able to cross sea between England and Netherlands under reasonable weather conditions and then continue through system of inland waterways. And in the EU such proposal would as well face problems as there, in some places, exists opposition to expansion of inland waterways. And I am not sure whether it would be possible to persuade those groups that expansion of canal from Berlin to Warsaw is good idea and that the significant works that would have to be done on Elbe are in fact good idea and so on. But Europe is still missing one crucial ling, tome between northern Europe and Mediterranean. On the other hand some large train ferries, but one would have to fit in at leas one 750 metres long train divided into sections placed side by side, could make sense. But I am not sure whether companies in Europe would be willing to spend money on special carriages that would fit through significantly smaller British loading gauge.

Direction Belgium and isn’t really merging to Germany. Existing canal du nord is running direction north , near the town Cambrai and connects to Canal de la Sensée near the town Arleux north from Cambrai . Nowhere near Germany but as said before direction north I.e. Belgium . I wonder if you put these titles “artificial river to Germany” on purpose . In the reality it’s just a normal improvement , widening of existing canal system . But I still like the idea of more and better canals in Europe. 👍🎉 .

Will the water be there for this project? France is experiencing drought conditions which have led to water restrictions. Southern Europe is expected to become at least semi-arid. The Panama Canal is showing just how quickly a project like this can become a stranded asset.

You can get the same amount of cargo onto a single freighter ship as would take a fleet of dozens or even hundreds of trucks. Even trains cannot carry as much payload. So these kinds of canals offer huge benefits to expedite large-scale shipping of goods without creating traffic gridlock on the road system. Economically, this just makes sense, especially for inland trade that would require more complex logistics to get goods to coastal ports and then get them back inland.

What's old is new again !

This project has nothing to do with Germany, it only involves Belgium and France. This canal connects the Scheldt with the Seine (the Oise to be exact, which flows into the Seine). It also involves deepening the Lys in Belgium, a Scheldt tributary. It allows Europe's second biggest port, Antwerp Belgium, and also smaller ports like North Sea port, Le Havre and Dunkerk, to serve Northern France and its hinterland.

I Love me some good ole Megaproject. Let's Get Shit Done!

Title says "river", when it's really a "canal" as per the video.

@claude_k

3 ай бұрын

Well, isn't the definition of "canal" simply "artificial river" ? ;-)

@TheRapidGamer

3 ай бұрын

@@claude_k Your thinking makes sense, however the two are not interchangeable because the definition of a river is the following "A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries." - I'm sure you would agree a canal does not fall under this definition.

It's an impressive project. But even when it will be finished, it will still not be big enough to accommodate the ocean going ships that keep using in the video...

Brother can I make Hindi version of your videos??? We share revenue 😊

Compiègne = com-pi-ay-nye. Not "compain" ;)

@mikehindson-evans159

4 ай бұрын

Within an overall excellent and interesting documentary, it's a minor (but repeated) niggle with the narration. You migh also pronounce as "Comp-ee-yen". Certainly not campaign".

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😂environment friendly... let's not talk about that anymore.. just say sustainable economic growth

One tanker creates much more pollution than all these trucks. They have no standards for the purity of fuel, it is literally the worst that can be, so fairy tales that it is for the sake of the environment make me smile. The economic benefit is beyond doubt

@joaquimbarbosa896

4 ай бұрын

They are incredibly fuel efficient

@KyrilPG

4 ай бұрын

We're not talking about high seas super tankers, but about canal barges that operate inside the EU and follow its strict regulations. Such barges have a much better environmental impact than trucks. You just need not to be pressed by time. Even though one supermarket alliance now does its Paris core deliveries with barges on the Seine River to the center, then small trucks and cargo cycles for the last leg to the shops, which kinda proves that under certain conditions it doesn't take too long.