Juliana Canal

The Juliana Canal named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, is a 36 km long canal in the southern Netherlands, providing a skip of an unnavigable phase of the river Meuse between Maastricht and Maasbracht. It is an crucial transport connection among the ports of the Rhine delta and the economic areas of southern Limburg and southern Belgium. The Juliana Canal turned into constructed inside the 1920s and 1930s, and opened in 1935.

It was critical for the development of coal mining in southern Limburg, seeing that it's miles suitable for large ships than the older Zuid Willemsvaart, which runs from s Hertogenbosch to Maastricht, partly through Belgium. The Juliana Canal runs parallel to the Meuse, at maximum three km east of the river. Between Maasbracht and Maastricht, the canal profits approximately 25 m of elevation. There are locks at Limmel, Born, and Maasbracht. Until 1965, there used to be another lock near Roosteren. When the locks of Born and Maasbracht have been modernized, those became useless and have been destroyed. There are ports at Maastricht, Stein, Born and Maasbracht. The port at Stein used to be the second one huge inland port in Europe, after Duisburg in Germany. This turned into because of the Dutch State Mines. All the coal mines the Netherlands had had been in this area. Today, DSM still owns a part of the port.