Over 5,000 Ships Stranded in China's Longest Canal

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Over 5,000 Ships Stranded in China's Longest Canal

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More than 5,000 ships are stranded in the Grand Canal in east China's Jiangsu Province due to severe flooding in the Huaihe River, resulting in daily economic losses amounting to millions of US dollars.

The canal, which starts from Beijing and ends in Hangzhou, the capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, is an important waterway criss-crossing the Huaihe and the Yangtze River in Jiangsu.

On July 10, local water transport authorities stopped navigation on the river for the safety of the ships, because the flooding in the Huaihe had caused the water level in the canal to surge rapidly, stranding the ships that were heading for the Yangtze.

The authorities are keeping order in the canal and helping the stranded sailors with daily necessities.

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