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S Vessels will save approx.Estland Waterways and Shipping Office Göteborg Leith D 450 km by transiting the Kiel- R E canal. Saving distanceRiga and Schweden E O Dänemark time on the Kiel Canal federal Schleuseninsel 2 Esbjerg S 24159 Kiel N Kopen- Malmö waterway meansKlaipeda an enormous hagen T competitiveS advantageLitauen to Tel.: +49 (0)431 3603-0 Fax: +49 (0)431 3603-414 Kiel internationalO Russland shipping.Vilnius Brunsbüttel NOK Gdansk [email protected] Rostock In addition to the locks at Großbritanien Hamburg Stettin www.wsa-kiel.wsv.de Themse Bremen BrunsbüttelPolen and Kiel, the Kiel London www.wsv.de Amsterdam Oder Deutschland Berlin Canal infrastructure includes Southhampton Rotterdam Vistula Dover Warschau Weser 10 bridges, 2 tunnels, 14 ferries Antwerpen Belgien Rhein and 12 lay-bys (passing areas). Bruxelles The Kiel Canal is the largest artificial receiving body March 2019 of water in Schleswig-Holstein. In the summer season, around 10,000 recreational craft pass the Kiel Canal. The Federal Waterways This publication is distributed free of charge as part and Shipping Administration ensures that the Kiel of the public relations work of the Federal Water- Canal is continuously maintained to provide a ways and Shipping Administration. It shall not be permanently available, safe and reliable transport used for canvassing. route. Major expansion projects have been planned along this important transit route to meet the future demand of international shipping. In 2018, about 29,000 commercial vessels passed the Kiel Canal, transporting roughly 87,5 million tons of cargo. Tips for recreational craft boaters Please note: How are the transit fees for • Recreational craft waiting areas at Kiel Lock: recreational craft collected? Within Kiel Canal: north side (recreational craft landing stages) before ferry. On Kieler Förde: near Tiessenkai.

• Recreational craft waiting areas at Brunsbüttel Lock: Within Kiel Canal: south side, between ferry Recreat. Elbe craft berth and small locks. On river Elbe: area off mole 1. (North Sea) within Kiel Canal Ferry • Please keep clear of commercial vessels. Never wait Kiel Canal in the lock approaches. You would cause unclear Recreational craft waiting area situations that can become dangerous for Recreational craft waiting area

commercial vessels and yourself. BRUNSBÜTTEL LOCK: Please use the small locks. • At Kiel, only the big locks are operational. If the Pay machine at recreational craft traffic situation permits and a sufficient number of Tiessenkai recreational craft is waiting, exclusive recreational Recreational Ferry craft lockings will be conducted, one in the morn- craft waiting area Recreational craft waiting Kiel area ing and one in the afternoon. Please pay attention Canal to announcements on VHF channel 12 and/or to Kieler Förde Transiting the Kiel Canal on recreational craft re- (Baltic Sea) the variable text display near the waiting area quires payment of a transit fee in accordance with the KIEL-HOLTENAU LOCK: Please use the big locks. within Kiel Canal (north side, recreational craft The small locks are out of service for a longer period of time. Regulation on Transit Fees for the Kiel Canal (see landing stages). https://www.gdws.wsv.bund.de/webcode/1852026 • Commercial vessels enter first. After that, recrea- Climbing of the lock walls via the ladders installed in tional craft will receive a signal to enter, depend- the lock chambers of Brunsbüttel and Kiel-Holtenau ing on the space available in the chamber and the locks is prohibited. These ladders are for emergency vessel’s propeller wake. Please leave the chamber and rescue purposes only. You cannot pay the transit quickly upon request by the lock operator. fee in the lock chambers. • A SINGLE intermittent white light (no green/red) We offer the following options for paying the transit means: Recreational craft are permitted to enter. fee (see pictures on the right): All other signals mean: Recreational craft are not • Harbour master Kiel-Holtenau, Tiessenkai permitted to enter. • Two Pay machines (Kiel-Holtenau locks): Pay machine at recreational craft berth west of Tiessenkai, Kiel-Holtenau • Listen carefully to the working channel. The lock 1. at the recreational craft berth west of Tiessenkai and Port Warden at Kiel-Holtenau Tiessenkai operator will explain the lock situation and inform 2. near the inner waiting area at Kiel-Holtenau you about the next lockage. When requesting on the north side of the canal (at the floating information, please always indicate your position landing stages) (“in” or “outside the canal”). • Payment to the lock keeper at Gieselau Lock • Occasionally at Brunsbüttel at the recreational craft • Kiel lock tel.: +49 (0)431 3603 152 berth in the Kiel Canal (only if inspector present) • Brunsbüttel lock tel.: +49 (0)4852 885 252

Pay machine at recreational craft landing stages, waiting area Kiel-Canal north