Seine-North Europe Canal

The Seine-Nord Europe Canal is a wide-gauge Canal that will link Compiègne in the Oise to Aubencheul-au-Bac in the North. A central link in the Seine-Escaut river link, it will cross Hauts-de-France and allow large barges to travel efficiently between France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The essentials of the Canal

The Canal at home

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Since its start, the Seine-Nord Europe Canal project has been built with the inhabitants, economic players and communities of the Compiegnois Noyonnais, Santerre Upper Somme and Artois Cambresis. Until commissioning, the teams of the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe inform you about:

the consistency of amenities near you;
the benefits of the project and its opportunities;
the work program;
the location of worksites and the measures put in place to facilitate your daily life in the various sectors of intervention.

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Territory Artois Cambresis

28 km long in the crossing of Artois and Cambrésis, the Canal Seine-Nord Europe will partially overlap the route of the current Canal du Nord, between Ruyaulcourt and Havrincourt. On the rest of its route, the Seine-Nord Europe Canal will follow a new route.

From Ytres (62) to Aubencheul-au-Bac (59), the Seine-Nord Europe Canal will cross 13 essentially rural municipalities, close to the urban centers of Arras, Douai and Cambrai.

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Territory of Santerre Haute-Somme

The Santerre Haute-Somme territory is home to 45 km of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal, between Ercheu and Equancourt, crossing 26 municipalities. Nesle and Péronne are the two main towns and will each host an inland port. In total, the territory crossed by the Seine-Nord Europe Canal has nearly 20 inhabitants.

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Territory Compiègne Noyonnais

Between Compiègne and Libermont, it's 33,6 km of Canal which cross the department of Oise. Work has already begun and will continue: roundabouts, quays, upscaling of the canalized Oise, development of the Oise river, construction of locks, displacement of the bed of the Oise, widening and deepening of the Lateral Canal at the 'Oise or own digging.

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