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Braunschweig (dpa / lnw) - The massive onset of winter has further effects on inland shipping.
From Wednesday evening (6 p.m.) the Mittelland Canal will be closed to shipping, as the competent waterways and shipping office announced on Tuesday in Braunschweig.
As a precaution, the icebreakers, which are otherwise on the canal, are pulled down onto the Weser in order to break ice floes there in front of weirs - this is how the pressure that the ice loads on these systems should be reduced, said a spokesman.
With a view to the announced permafrost period with up to minus 20 degrees, which is to last for several days, the icebreakers could probably keep the Mittelland Canal free anyway, according to the spokesman.
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With a length of over 320 kilometers, the Mittelland Canal is the longest artificial waterway in Germany.
It branches off west of Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) from the Dortmund-Ems Canal and flows into Hohenwarte near Magdeburg.
It also crosses North Rhine-Westphalia in the north.
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