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Locks for boats at Lithuania’s major dam may resume international river routes
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A 70-million-euro project could see locks constructed at the country’s biggest dam in Kaunas, allowing shipping to resume along Nemunas River.
The Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant was built 60 years ago and its dam has been a hurdle for waterway transport ever since. The place for a potential lock, however, was already marked and prepared during the construction of the dam itself.
“If we had a lock, starting by by boat from Jurbarkas and crossing the Polish border through the Augustów Canal, we could reach all of Europe, the Black Sea and the North Sea,” said Vladimiras Vinokurovas, director of Lithuania’s Inland Waterways Directorate. “In terms of tourism and transportation, this could be quite interesting.”