Word: mittelland
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...element in the vast new program is the construction of a $190 million, 70-mile-long North-South Canal that will link Hamburg to the Mittelland Canal, itself to be deepened and widened at a cost of $420 million. The new canal, running parallel to the River Elbe, will give the North Sea port direct access to the Ruhr industrial complex, is expected to generate an extra 10 million tons of freight annually after it is completed in 1972 The plan also calls for deepening and improving five other major canals...
...British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus some 600 barges through the Mittelland Canal, and a dozen freight cars daily by rail...
...East and West rail headquarters keep in constant touch over train schedules, freight costs, tickets, border control. The West German shipping administration in Hamburg and the Soviet zone agency in Magdeburg deal with each other in keeping barge traffic flowing on the Elbe and the big Mittelland canal...
...Heavy trucks on the Autobahn between Berlin and West Germany were waved past Soviet check points that had once held them for days; locks on the Mittelland Canal, closed since last August for "repairs," were mended overnight...
Four weeks ago they stopped trucks leaving West Berlin for Germany's West zone, demanded a toll of $75 a round trip to pay for "road upkeep." They had already cut off the Berlin-Mittelland barge canal for "repairs" and hampered railway parcel-post shipments on still another pretext. Meanwhile, Red negotiators sat down with West German officials to talk about a new trade agreement between East and West Germany...