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September 20, 2022

Poland opens new waterway to cut dependence from Russia

  • However, cargo ships cannot use the passage until the approach to the Port of Elblag is deepened.

    • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new — albeit unfinished — canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia's permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

    The event was timed to mark 83 years since the Soviet invasion of Poland during World War II and to demonstrate symbolically the end of Moscow's say on the economy and development of a region that borders Russia's Kaliningrad exclave. The government says the waterway gives Poland full sovereignty in the northeastern region, which needs investment and economic development.


     
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