Waterway guidelines 2011

The Waterway Guidelines cover only: • the transport engineering design; the structural design is beyond the scope of the Guidelines; • waterways in CEMT classes I to V and recreational waterways; • waterways without currents or with a longitudinal current up to 0.5 m/s; • waterways that are not primarily intended for sea shipping; • waterways...

The Kreekrak locks on the Scheldt-Rhine connection

The Dutch Belgian treaty of may 1963 stipulated that a system of locks should he constructed in the canal section extending from the port of Antwerp to the Eastern Scheldt. The system of locks was called the 'Kreekrak locks' from the tidal gulley that once existed in this area. The lock system had to he designed in such a way that when it was in...

Lock capacity and traffic resistance of locks

Lock capacity and traffic resistance are factors which play an important part in the assessment of future traffic through existing locks and in the determination of the number and size of new ones. In this context lock capacity means the maximum quantity of shipping which can be locked per unit of time in the prevailing conditions, if a lock is...

The canalization of the lower Rhine

A few kilometres after crossing the Dutch frontier the Waal splits off from the river Rhine and flows to the left carrying 70% of the Rhine's water. A few kilometres further down, the IJssel splits off and flows to the right carrying 12% of the water coming down the Rhine. The river Rhine turns to the left carrying the remaining 18% of its...