The 66-mile Seine-Nord Europe Canal will connect with waterways capable of transporting large freight between Paris, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Work on the groundbreaking French Seine-Nord Europe Canal (SNEC) is underway after two decades of political gridlock. The first new French waterway built in over five decades is set to be game ...

Work is finally underway on France’s Seine-Nord Europe Canal (SNEC), a major new European trading route that promises to boost the bloc’s economic fortunes. When it is completed in 2030, the ...

The 54-meter (177-foot) wide SNEC will be like “a move from small roads to motorway,” said Jérôme Dezobry, president of the executive board of the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe (SCSNE ...

Construction has begun in France on the revolutionary Seine-Nord Europe Canal (SNEC), after 20 years of political stalemate. The first new French waterway to be built in over half a century is ...

France's national waterway authority has named a design-firm team to plan and manage construction and commissioning of what will be an estimated $5-billion new canal to transport freight in ...

Seine-Nord Europe is a flagship project of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's Grenelle de l'Environnement (Environmental Roundtable) initiative. The SNE Canal will support the sustainable economic ...

France has long planned to build the waterway dubbed the Seine-Nord canal to allow large barges to sail from Paris to the harbors of Antwerp and Rotterdam, reducing truck traffic on its motorways.

Voies Navigables de France (VNF), the public body that manages and develops the country's 6700 km-long waterway network, has released the tender to construct the Seine Nord Europe (SNE) Canal.