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Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. The canal is 6.3 kilometer in length and was built between 1881 and 1893.

The Corinth Canal is considered a great technical achievement for its time. It saves the 400 kilometers long journey around the Peloponnesus for smaller ships, but since it is only 21 meters wide. The depth of the canal is 8 meters at low water. The maximum air-draft of the Canal is limited to 52m because of the rail and road bridges.
So it is too narrow for modern ocean freighters.

Though 11,000 ships per year travel through the waterway (mostly for tourist purposes).

You may watch my high resolution photos of tha Canal on the Google Earth according to the following coordinates 37º 55' 37.46" N 22º 59' 39.01" E
and on Google Panoramio Greece Corinth Channel West and Greece Corinth Channel East.

Website: http://www.corinthcanal.com/en_index.php

Corinth Canal Bridges

I’ve counted 6 bridges across the Canal. We were brought to the Old Motorway Bridge because it’s situated almost at the middle of the Canal and the most fascinating views are opening from there.

Watching to the West we could see the Railway Bridge with the pedestrian footbridge at the distance less than 500 meters. While zooming my camera I could see the Big Pedestrian Bridge at the distance of 1 kilometer.
Watching to the East we could see the New Motorway Bridge at the distance of 300 meters where autobahn was passing by.

There are also 2 sinking bridges in the Corinth Canal today at Poseidonia and at Isthmia -- to facilitate land traffic over it. At each end of the canal, seashore roads cross using submersible bridges that are lowered to the canal bottom to allow maritime traffic to pass.