The canal serves as a waterway between the two cities.
这个运河是连接两座城市的水路。
The boat glided smoothly along the waterway, passing through picturesque landscapes.
船在水道上平稳地滑行，经过如画的风景。
The river was once an important waterway for transporting goods during the colonial era.
这条河在殖民时期曾是运输货物的重要航道。
The government is investing in improving the waterway infrastructure to boost trade.
政府正在投资改善航道设施以促进贸易。
The waterway was blocked by a fallen tree, causing delays for boats.
一条倒下的树阻塞了航道，导致船只延误。
The cruise ship sailed down the majestic Mississippi River, a major waterway in America.
游轮沿着美国主要航道密西西比河航行。
The waterway connects Lake Michigan with the Great Lakes system.
这条水道将密歇根湖与五大湖系统相连。
The construction of a new dam will regulate the flow of water in this waterway.
新大坝的建设将控制这条水道的水流。
The waterway provided a crucial lifeline for early settlements in the region.
这条水道为该地区早期定居点提供了至关重要的生活线。
The local economy relies heavily on the thriving waterway traffic for its prosperity.
当地经济严重依赖繁忙的水运交通来维持繁荣。
However, China's coastal waters have dense waterways and busy shipping lines, which may damage submarine cables when ships anchor.
然而，中国沿海水域水道密集，航运线路繁忙，船只抛锚时可能会损坏海底电缆。
However, China's coastal waters have dense waterways and busy ships, which can easily damage submarine cables when anchoring.
然而，中国沿海水域水道密集，船只繁忙，抛锚时很容易损坏海底电缆。
Danfoss Group, the Danish engineering company, announced the signing of China’s first green development initiative for the inland waterway shipping industry, said the company in a statement.
丹麦工程公司丹佛斯集团在一份声明中表示，该公司宣布签署中国首个内河航运业绿色发展倡议。
Danfoss, China Yangtze River Shipping Co Ltd and other major players in the shipping and shipbuilding fields gathered in Wuhan, Hubei province, last week to explore the technological pathway to the electrification of inland waterway ships.
上周，丹佛斯、中国长江航运有限公司和其他航运和造船领域的主要参与者聚集在湖北省武汉市，探索内河船舶电气化的技术途径。
Huawei said at its Asia Pacific Partners Conference 2023 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province that the six new partner alliances are for the government; finance; electric power; and road, waterway and port industries, as well as for the independent software vendor and data center facility solution sectors.
华为在广东省深圳举行的2023年亚太合作伙伴大会上表示，六个新的合作伙伴联盟是为政府建立的；资金电力；以及公路、水路和港口行业，以及独立软件供应商和数据中心设施解决方案行业。
For example, in East China's Fujian province, road and waterway transportation investment reached 28.9 billion yuan in the first quarter, accounting for 28.9 percent of the annual target.
例如，在中国东部的福建省，一季度公路和水路运输投资达到289亿元，占全年目标的28.9%。
York Yue, CTO of Huawei's smart road, waterway and port business unit, said smart horizontal transportation using 5G networks and IGVs is ideal for container terminals.
华为智能道路、水路和港口业务部门CTO York Yue表示，使用5G网络和IGV的智能水平运输是集装箱码头的理想选择。
It runs along the Lotus Bridge and crosses the Shizimen Waterway before entering Hengqin island in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, through an underwater tunnel, and then arrives at the underground HE2 station located in front of Hengqin Port.
它沿着莲花大桥穿过狮子门水道，然后通过水下隧道进入广东省珠海市的横琴岛，然后到达位于横琴港前的地下HE2站。
To keep supply chains running smoothly in the Yangtze River Delta region, China COSCO Shipping Corp, the country's largest shipping group by fleet size and ports－including those in Taicang, Nanjing and Zhangjiagang－have been helping export-oriented companies in Jiangsu province ship containers to ports in Shanghai via waterways.
为了保持长江三角洲地区供应链的平稳运行，中国远洋运输集团公司（China COSCO Shipping Corp）一直在帮助江苏省的出口导向型公司通过水路将集装箱运往上海港口。
Of these, ports in Nanjing, Yangzhou, Zhangjiagang and Xuzhou have provided daily services to send shipping containers via waterways to ports in Shanghai for export, according to Shanghai-based China COSCO Shipping.
据总部位于上海的中国远洋运输公司称，其中，南京、扬州、张家港和徐州的港口提供了通过水路将集装箱运往上海港口出口的日常服务。
"Therefore, the world's demand for TBMs will remain stable as many economies are seeking to create jobs and stimulate trade flows via big-ticket transportation, smart city and other infrastructure projects, which certainly require tunnels," the researcher said, adding projects like urban subways and railways that traverse mountains or waterways usually require the technical support of TBMs.
因此，随着许多经济体寻求通过大型交通运输、智慧城市和其他基础设施项目创造就业机会和刺激贸易流动，对TBM的需求将会保持稳定，”该研究人员表示，并补充说，通常需要TBM技术支撑的项目包括城市地铁和穿越山脉或水道的铁路。
Viking will also look to boost cruises on China's inland waterways, such as in the scenic Yangtze River.
Yao said he chose the Louisiana location because the state government offered better incentives and the site has easy access to railroads and waterways.
Japan's three major shipping groups — Nippon Yusen, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Mitsui OSK Lines — also announced on Wednesday they will suspend routes through the Red Sea waterway to ensure operational safety.
"The Pearl River, the nation's second-largest river in terms of freight volume after the Yangtze, has played a big part in promoting economic development and cooperation among the provinces and regions along the waterway," Wang added.
Meanwhile, more than 27.5 billion yuan ($3.93 billion) has been invested in construction of waterway transport infrastructure facilities along the Pearl River in 2023, more than twice the investment seen in 2022, said Wang, adding that last year, the Pearl River and its tributaries had a total of 102 water transport engineering construction projects in operation, involving investment of more than 177 billion yuan.
The record high investment in the construction of waterway transport infrastructure facilities along the Pearl River has not only helped to promote the high-quality development of the waterway's transportation, but has also promoted optimization of the layout of industries along the river which links inland areas with Hong Kong and Macao, said Wang.
"And the advanced inland waterway transport system has helped transfer industries to the vast Chinese central and western regions with support for the implementation of major strategies, including construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," Wang said.
He said his administration will continue to speed up construction of environmentally friendly "green model channels" along the waterway to protect the ecology of the country's third-longest river system through the introduction of more new high-technology and artificial intelligence breakthroughs in the new year.
The Pearl River's major tributaries are the Xijiang, Dongjiang and Beijiang rivers, with the main waterway running through Guangdong, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Guangxi, as well as Hong Kong and Macao.
The passenger volumes on railways, roads, waterways and airways nationwide totaled nearly 130 million from Dec 30, 2023, to Jan 1, 2024, the Ministry of Transport said on Tuesday.
Wang Xiongchang, mayor of Qinzhou, said: "Marching toward the new era, we aim to build waterways to further enhance the interconnectivity of Guangxi and ASEAN member states.
It also sits near the Hutuo River, a local waterway surrounded by beautiful scenery," she said.
Boasting enchanting scenery, numerous historic sites and bustling markets along the riverbanks, the Qinhuai River, a major waterway of Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu province, serves as the cradle of ancient Jinling culture and has stood as a distinctive landmark of the country since ancient times.
Passenger trips made via China's waterways soared 146.8 percent from the same period last year to 120 million.
The land-sea transit route is based on the efficient use of a variety of transportation modes, including railways, highways and waterways.
The Lancang-Mekong River is a vital waterway for cross-border shipping, with the upper reaches of the river known as the Lancang River in China and the Mekong River in the other five Southeast Asian countries it flows through -- Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Other public green spaces that have mushroomed in Shanghai over the past five years because of the 15-minute community life circle campaign include those at the waterfront areas of Shanghai's two major waterways — Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River.
The just-concluded Spring Festival travel rush, a mass-migration event marking the celebration of Chinese New Year, witnessed more than 1.5 billion trips made by rail, highways, waterways and civil aviation in 40 days.
The Spring Festival travel rush, a mass-migration event marking the celebration of the Chinese New Year, witnessed more than 1.5 billion trips made by rail, highways, waterways and civil aviation in 40 days.
The just-concluded Spring Festival travel rush, a mass-migration event marking the celebration of the Chinese New Year, witnessed more than 1.5 billion trips made by rail, highways, waterways and civil aviation in 40 days.
China's fixed-asset investment in road and waterway transport systems maintained steady growth from January to October, official data showed.
Inland waterway investment rose 9.2 percent to 63.4 billion yuan.
China's fixed-asset investment in road and waterway transport maintained a steady growth from January to October, official data showed Tuesday.
The fixed-asset investment in road and waterway transport reached nearly 2.47 trillion yuan ($345 billion) in the first ten months, up 9.5 percent year-on-year, said the Ministry of Transport.
Inland waterway investment rose 9.2 percent year-on-year to 63.4 billion yuan.
Coastal waterway investment increased 8.2 percent from a year earlier to 65.2 billion yuan.
Jointly built by regions in western China and some Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members, the land-sea trade corridor enables efficient freight transportation via various modes such as railways, highways and waterways.
East China's economic powerhouse Jiangsu province has posted steady growth in its railway and waterway freight volumes in the first three quarters of 2022, helping stabilize the supply chain and industrial chain, the local transportation department said.
江苏省是中国东部的经济重镇，据当地交通部门介绍，2022年前三个季度，该省铁路和水路货运量保持稳定增长，有力地支撑了供应链和产业链的稳定。
The province reported over 64.6 million tons of railway freight and 800 million tons of waterway freight in the first nine months, up 7.3 percent and 14.5 percent, year-on-year, respectively.
该省在前九个月报告铁路货运量超过6460万吨，水路货运量达到8亿吨，同比分别增长7.3%和14.5%。
Currently, Jiangsu has 89 international routes in waterway transportation, including new sea routes linking Nanjing, its capital city, with Ho Chi Minh City and Taicang City with Europe.
目前，江苏省拥有89条国际水路运输航线，其中包括连接其省会城市南京与胡志明市的新海运航线，以及太仓市至欧洲的航线。
A massive waterway project between the Yangtze and the Huaihe rivers is set to test its water diversion and navigation capabilities by the year's end.
The project, with a length of over 1,000 kilometers, will be the second major north-south waterway after the existing Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which zigzags some 1,794 km.
The total length includes 723 km of the newly developed three sections, over 400 km of the existing Yangtze waterway in Anhui and the existing Huaihe navigable waterway.
SIPG consistently diversifies its operations by integrating logistics resources, including waterways and railway networks, which allow transportation across the region with higher efficiency and lower energy consumption, Zhou Yong said.
Apart from existing conduits linking the two countries that include railways, inland waterways, sea freight routes and pipelines, the bridge will better facilitate trade between Northeast China and Russia's Far East, he added.
The corridor connects important transport links, including the China-Europe Railway Express services and the Yangtze River golden waterway, as well as economic corridors and circles in areas such as the Indo-China Peninsula and the Pacific.
Stretching 140 kilometers and requiring an estimated investment of 68 billion yuan ($10.7 billion), the canal will link the Xijiang River, a major waterway in southwestern China, with ports in the Beibu Gulf.
"We are willing to cooperate with all sides in the Pan-Beibu Gulf region to carry out comprehensive port development, improve the service capabilities of waterways, optimize port functions and support the growth of multimodal transport," Li said during the 12th Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum, held in Nanning, Guangxi's regional capital, late last week.
Earlier, it was announced at the State Council's executive meeting a policy of deferred premium payments for old age, unemployment and workplace safety insurance programs by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed households and companies in five hard-hit sectors (namely catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation and highway, waterway and railway transportation) will be prolonged through the end of this year.
China has intensified efforts to coordinate epidemic control with waterway transportation and production, especially in areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Measures taken include ensuring round-the-clock operations at key ports, coordinating and unclogging waterway transportation, and promoting non-contact means with the help of technology, the ministry said.
The policy of deferred premium payments of old-age, unemployment and workplace safety insurance programs by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed households and companies in the catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, and highway, waterway and railway transportation sectors will be prolonged until the end of this year, and extended to other industries facing serious difficulties.
China's investment in road and waterway infrastructure saw steady expansion in the first four months of the year, data from the Ministry of Transport shows.
Fixed-asset investment in road and waterway infrastructure rose 7.3 percent year-on-year to 729.5 billion yuan ($107.51 billion) during the period, according to the ministry.
In breakdown, the country's fixed-asset investment in road construction climbed 7.7 percent year-on-year, while that for waterway infrastructure edged up 0.8 percent from the same period last year.
This service will also divert road transportation needs to waterways to ensure the smooth operation of logistics channels during the pandemic.
Transportation and marine departments in Hainan province should strengthen information exchange to enhance monitoring of relevant processes to safeguard the order of domestic waterway transportation and national security, said the State Council.
The administration will ensure the smooth circulation of industrial and supply chains in key regions and expand the supervision mode of joint shipping services between ocean-going vessels and ships operating in inland waterways.
China's investment in road and waterway infrastructure rose in the first quarter of the year (Q1), data from the Ministry of Transport shows.
Fixed-asset investment in road and waterway infrastructure jumped 11.4 percent year-on-year to 512 billion yuan ($78.88 billion) during the period, according to the ministry.
China's waterway freight volume rose 5.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter (Q1) of the year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.
More than 1.93 billion tons of waterway cargo were transported in the period, according to the ministry.
In March alone, China's waterway freight volume stood at 683.17 million tons, said the ministry.
"For the catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, highway, waterway and railway transportation industries, the policy to defer payments of old-age insurance premiums will be implemented during the second quarter of this year.
对于餐饮、零售、旅游、民航、公路、水路、铁路运输等行业，将在今年第二季度实施养老保险费缓缴政策。
COVID restrictions forcing ports to rely more on waterways, less on truckingMedium-sized ports around Shanghai, including those at Taicang and Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu province, saw a surging volume of transshipment to Shanghai in March, since many neighboring cities adopted strict anti-COVID measures for truck drivers going to and coming from Shanghai due to the city's lockdown, said forwarders and Customs officials.
To resolve the shortage of truck drivers and prevent logistical delays, Taicang Port, facilitated by Nanjing Customs, has been helping export-oriented companies in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, ship containers to ports in Shanghai via waterway transshipment.
The Taicang-Shanghai waterway transshipment service has transported a total of 59,000 TEUs, containing goods such as electronic products and auto parts, to Shanghai in March, soaring 68 percent on a yearly basis, according to Customs data.
Once clearances for such international cargo are completed by Taicang Customs, they can be shipped along the waterway in between four and six hours to Yangshan Port, Waigaoqiao Port and Wusong Port in Shanghai, said Zou Wei, customer service manager at Taicang-based Suzhou Modern Terminal Co Ltd. Chen Yixin, head of the logistics department at VAG Water Systems (Taicang) Co Ltd, a valve manufacturer invested by Germany's VAG Group, said costs of water transportation and truck delivery to Shanghai's Yangshan Port were previously similar, but land transport was typically faster.
It is also hard to find available truck drivers these days, and road transport has become more expensive than waterway transport services.
Although waterways, railways and aviation transport can park, stop and land only at certain locations, their shipping capacities are significantly bigger compared to trucking.
The majority of the funds went to road and waterway infrastructure construction, with investment in road construction jumping 15.7 percent year-on-year to 255.1 billion yuan.
Investment in waterway construction came in at 18 billion yuan in the first two months, up 3.9 percent.
The CTSI incorporated the transport volume of passengers and cargo of various transportation means, including railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation.
BEIJING, March -- China's waterway freight volume rose 5.5 percent year-on-year in the first two months of the year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.
More than 1.25 billion tons of waterway cargo were transported in the January-February period, according to the ministry.
In February alone, China's waterway freight volume stood at 571.24 million tons, said the ministry.
- China increased investment in road and waterway infrastructure in the first two months of the year, according to data from the Ministry of Transport.
Fixed-asset investment in road and waterway infrastructure jumped 14.8 percent year on year to 273.1 billion yuan (about $43.1 billion) from January to February.
- China's waterway freight and passenger volumes rose year-on-year in January, according to data from the Ministry of Transport.
The southernmost province of Hainan saw the biggest increase in waterway freight volume, up 34 percent year-on-year.
In January, waterway passenger trips totaled 9.08 million, up 6.6 percent year-on-year.
Ningxia Hui autonomous region, in the Northwest, reported the sharpest rise in waterway passenger trips, surging 169.6 percent from a year earlier, the data showed.
During the same period, 130 million trips were made by railways, highways, waterways and civil aviation, up 31.7 percent from the same period in 2021, according to the Ministry of Transport.
Investment in inland waterways exceeded 50 billion yuan, up 9.7 percent year-on-year, while coastal waterway investment surged 24.4 percent from a year earlier to over 54 billion yuan, the data showed.
Specifically, the investment in highway construction amounted to 1.6 trillion yuan, up 6 percent year on year in the January-August period, while that in the waterway sector soared 18.4 percent year on year to 91.4 billion yuan during the period.
A 10,000-metric-ton port, first of its kind in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River -- China's longest waterway-- began operations Wednesday.
"As the first 10,000-metric-ton port in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, it will provide a more convenient channel for goods from eastern Sichuan, southern Gansu and Shaanxi, and parts of Chongqing to reach the waterway and the sea," said Wang Botao, director of the municipal port and maritime affairs center.
"Thanks to the excellent connections to the European hinterland, Hamburg can play a valuable part in supplying the population with relief goods and keeping the shelves in the supermarkets full, both by waterways and by rail.
Liu Jianbin, a partner of Century Cruise, said leisure travel-related activities on major waterways should be encouraged in addition to transportation, though multiple challenges exist for such a shift.
Li encouraged the port to boost its strengths in terms of its geographical position, waterways and links with river transport and employ market methods to beef up imports, storage and transportation of commodities in order to improve its capability to respond to future periodic fluctuations in the global economy and stabilize industry and supply chains.
Investment in road and waterway constructions soared 60.1 percent from a year ago to 459.7 billion yuan during the period.
“在这一时期，对公路和水路建设的投资同比增长了60.1%，达到4597亿元人民币。”
With the new railway line running more than 10 meters above the ground, the water diversion project between China's longest river－the Yangtze, which traverses through southern Anhui for some 400 kilometers－and the Huaihe River, which runs through northern Anhui, can now run a 200-meter-wide waterway beneath the new line, said Liu Chuanghui from CTCE Fourth Engineering.
"A 200-meter-wide waterway needs to pass underneath the Shanghai-Chengdu high-speed railway.
The existing line isn't able to meet the waterway's navigation demand, necessitating a relocation," he said.
"With the smooth transfer of the new line, the digging of the waterway will start soon, and it helps complete the water diversion project on time," he said.
A waterway running across the nation from the north to the south was launched jointly by Shanghai International Port Group together with Tangshan Port Group and Guangzhou Port Group, the organization said on Saturday.
The Suez Canal Authority said that the container ship has been partially refloated, but it may take another two weeks to one month before the busy waterway returns to normalcy, said Lin Guolong, director of the Logistics Research Center at Shanghai Maritime University.
As regular shipping via the human-made waterway is currently not possible, the Sino-European freight train has become an ideal option for goods transport.
Despite the efforts made so far, the Suez Canal continues to remain blocked, holding up several vessels in one of the world's most important waterways.