Ghent
April 25th 2023 Dawn found Monarch Empress waiting to transit the Nieuwe Sluis Terneuzen and then follow the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal twenty miles (32 km) down to the city.
Arrival in Gent was through its Dampoort. The long canal terminating at Achterdok was again lined with all manner of industrial wharves: coal, sand, and gravel; scrap metal; pipes and petrochemicals. Good arriving by ocean vessels are transloa
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