List of boat lifts

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Belgium

Canada

Peterborough lift lock

China

  • Danjiangkou dam boat lift, in Hubei Province, capable of lifting vessels of 450 tons displacement.
  • Hubei Province
    , capable of lifting vessels of 300 tons displacement. The dam was completed in 1994, but technical difficulties delayed the opening of the ship lift for four more years.
  • Longtan dam boat lift, capacity to lift vessels of 250 tons, in a basin 40×10.8×1.8 meters, and a vertical lift of 68.5 meters.[2]
  • Yantan Ship Lift
  • Three Gorges Dam, boat lift (possibly complete July 2016)[3] and staircase lock[4][5]

France

Germany

Japan

Keage Incline around 1940

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

Krasnoyarsk Inclined Plane
  • Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam

United Kingdom

Falkirk Wheel
Hay Inclined Plane

United States

References

  1. ^ "Swift Rapids to Severn Falls TRENT SEVERN WATERWAY - ON LINE CRUISING GUIDE by CRUISING CANADA".
  2. ^ Prototype observation study of Yantan vertical ship lift Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Phase I Field Trial of Ship Lift at Three Gorges Dam Successfully Ends". CHINA THREE GORGES PROJECT. 2016-08-14. Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  4. Probe International (19). Archived from the original
    on March 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  5. (PDF) on 9 June 2021.

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