The Julianakanaal is filled with water again! Two billion liters of water have been siphoned into the canal within a week. Now, the dismantling of the temporary dam will begin, and on April 11, the first commercial vessels will be allowed back on the canal, after eight months of closure.
Recreational boating will only be allowed back on the canal once the temporary dam has been completely dismantled.
The Julianakanaal is part of the Maasroute, an important shipping route to ports in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Rijkswaterstaat is making the Maasroute suitable for so-called two-barge push navigation (class Vb vessels). These are ships 190 m long, 11.4 m wide, and with a maximum draft of 3.5 m.
Schepenkring Roermond will then also be easily accessible again from the south.
One no longer has to sail via the Belgian canals to sell your boat or to sail with your new boat to the south of Limburg (or further upstream on the Meuse). This also saves our Belgian and French customers coming from or via Liège a long detour.
