People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big business.

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez ...

Maintenance work under way on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

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