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Kanaal Gent-Oostende is an important waterway from the inland waterways port of Ghent over Bruges to Ostend at the North Sea.


Kanaal Gent Oostende | Belgium: Characteristics & Overview

Rating of waterway

Degree of difficulty:
For beginners (few locks)

Requirements:
No license asked for hired boats

Character of waterway:
back to nature

Profile of waterway:
Main waterway

Facilities groundside:
Sufficiant



Kanaal Gent Oostende | Belgium: Tips & Detailed information

Wharfs, Marinas, Harbors, Facilities, Houseboat hirers, Restaurants and Shops.

Facts to this waterway:

66 km
2.10 m
5.00 m


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Kanaal Gent-Oostende connects the sea ports of Oostende and Zeebrugge with Bruges and Ghent. The latter two are very beautiful old towns. It is hardly imaginable that Bruges had 35’000 citizens in the 12th century already and was the most important trade centre north of the Alps. But, in those days it lay on the North Sea coast...





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