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Canal Across France
£100,000,000 PROJECT
London, April 10.
A project engrossing French engineers is the cutting of a canal to accommodate ocean liners from the Atlantic at Le Verdon on the estuary of the Gironde to La Nouvelle on the Mediterranean, a distance of 300 miles. The canal would have sixteen locks with a 72 feet drop. The proposed depth la 44 feet with a width of 500 feet at the surface, increasing to 820 feet in the neighbourhood of the locks. The average speed through the canal is estimated at fourteen knots. The cost of construction is estimated at £100,000,000, and the receipts from 100,000,000 tonnage using the canal at ten francs a ton are expected to reach £2,000,000 annually. Opponents contend that the canal would not be used so much as the promoters anticipate, because it would not save long distances like the Suez and Panama Canals.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 9
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