Manych Ship Canal

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The Manych Ship Canal is a canal between the Black Sea lagoon the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea.

As of 2008^[update], proposals were being considered to turn it into a larger canal known as the Eurasia Canal. If built, this would be a multipurpose water-resources system and a limb of international transport. A proposed design would deepen the canal to 6.5 m (21 ft) and widen it to 80 m (260 ft). This would afford a traffic capacity of more than 75 million tons of cargo per year, and vessels could have a freight-carrying capacity of up to 10,000 tons.^[1]