TIME IS MONEY: The Kiel Canal - Expressway to the Baltic Sea | WELT Documentary 

I can't miss any documentary from welt. Personally I enjoy the voice of the narrator 🎉

So proud to hear my National Anthem playing Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 🙌 😍 ❤️

Awesome topic and very well done. I have watched both locks on the canal for a few years now on live WebCams. I picked up a lot of additional information watching your presentation. Thank you! (NC, USA)

I love this this is interesting as all hell especially since I’ve been in Germany before I love Germany. It’s a very nice country. I love your old canals. I’ve never seen this before. I love the way you got guys have this operated you’re so precise. God bless.

Been through Kiel canal! Great documentary!!!

Very nice! Good content & production. Thank you.

The narrator does an outstanding job.

Another fascinating documentary.

Fantastische Video. Danke

After watching this documentary you will probably have to google the map to see where exactly it is. Just something basic the editor should have added.

Congratulations guy's. Man my nerves were shot. Hope you have a awesome chapter on this boat and thank you for taking us along. Can't wait for your next video.

Excellent! Thank you.

I grew up by the canal, in Burg-in-Dithmarschen, 70 years ago. We swam in the canal, and rode the ferry back and forth. The occasional ship was to a window to the world for our lttle town; black and asian sailors waved to us and we waved back, in wonder.

Great documentary of very interesting project - greetings from Poland

0:09: 💡 The construction of a new lock chamber in Brunswick is underway to accommodate the increasing number of ships using the Keel Canal. 6:48: ⛵ A cargo ship navigates the Keel Canal with the help of a hydraulic engineer, canal helmsman, and pilot. 13:41: 🚢 The Keel Canal, also known as the KaiserWilhelm Canal, is an engineering masterpiece that allows ships to transit the canal at a maximum speed of 15 kilometers per hour. 20:38: 🚢 The passage of ships through the Keel Canal requires skill and coordination to navigate narrow corridors and aging locks. 27:40: 🚢 The ELP Sailor and other ships navigate the Kiel Canal, waiting in passing places and switching pilots. 34:09: 🚢 A captain discusses the challenges and importance of piloting ships through the Keel Canal. 41:37: 🚢 The challenges and operations of the Kiel Canal, including the transportation of cargo, maintenance of infrastructure, and navigation through narrow sections. 47:14: 🚢 The journey through the Keel Canal, the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is completed successfully in 8 hours. Recap by Tammy AI

Surprised to hear the national anthem of Antigua and Barbuda at 36:29. Very interesting documentary!

The battery on the "zero emissions ferry" is charged by an on-board diesel generator... Total greenwashing LMAO

In an offical document it is stated that the fees paid by the ships using the canal as of 2009 only covered 20-30% of the cost of operating and upgrading the canal, the rest covered by the German state. I was surpriced to learn. Maybe as of 2023 the fees cover more of the operating costs

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Awesome video👌

The Hanseatic League was awesome!! People should look them up.

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I find it kind of ironic and a little hypocritical that a zero admissions ferry has to charge its batteries with a diesel onboard generator….

Great presentation

nice shots

I like his book bag

Very interesting, as long as they dont get stuck😜

coolest captain of all time :- )

eco friendly farie charged by a diesel generator pretty much sums up all environmental engine4ring perfectly :D

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Interesting 🤔 awesome

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Who be the narrator for welt documentaries?

Make an electric ferry that uses diesel generators for electricity. That's just genius.

This was very interesting to see how such big ships can be pipetted through such small waterways I gess you could say technology has come along way scenes the days of sail ships then steel then Cole now fule and soon electrical powered what is next newclear powered ships I wonder if newclear and electrical powered ships will be for the future generations to come I gess time will tell us all again thankyou to all who made this ships how for us all to learn how things are done to save time and money most of all the environment plays the biggest part in it all

Ok dokumenter og udsendelse her. 🎉

engineering marvels

we navigated the kiel canal in march of 1978 to pick up a load of glossy magazine paper in kotka finland, coming back westward and bound for philadelphia the wes

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Two locks are necessary did I miss why this is so. Which end of the canal has the Hugh water and by how many meters.

This is not called Kiel Canal.... its real name is Nord-Ostsee Canal translated in North- East sea Canal. It's call sign is NOK.

I always thought it crazy that Captain has full responsibility even though pilot 100% in control for this canal and Suez Canal but I am a bystander. Any comments from others? Just curious.

Anyone catch the electric ferry that is charged by a diesel generator?! 😂

Anyone know the deepest part of that canal?

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RE: ( The "Electric" ferry ) I guess the Germans cannot see the irony of using Diesel motors to "Charge" the Batteries 4 Times per day. There is no cure for a Stupidity of that magnitude.

Electric ferry which is charging with diesel - why? Crarge it from shore instead

You could have started with a map to show what it was necessary.

When it comes to engineering, no one outdoes the Germans.

Once the Iron Duke, now the lowly Iron Lady.

I'm sure if they were making a documentary about baking a cake they would say that a mistake and mixing ingredients would be disastrous. So much unnecessary drama.

Electric ferry with zero emissions... minus the 4 times a day, it's charged by a diesel generator... 😂 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

No 1440p

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Fossil fuel makes the electricity for the electric ferry

I disagree that the Keel Canal is one of the most difficult waterways for pilots. There is no current to contend with and there are only two locks with minor height differences. The Welland Canal has 8 locks and bypasses Niagara Falls. The Soo Locks and St Mary's River is quite challenging due to currents; Ditto the St Lawrence Seaway.

Europe may need many canals if it might flood.

11:33 That sailboat just inside of the lock, crossing the big ship just in front it as it's leaving the lock is reckless, and *very bad* seamanship, IMHO.

diesel battery power ferries! so eco friendly lol

22:40 prodigal daughter returns without therapy, honestly though(t) European Union but African-American getting on my nerves but allowances for UN stresses are missing

So it takes 11 hours (49:46) to go around Denmark and saves 320 nautical miles (49:43 ). What, suddenly these freighters can travel at 30 knots an hour???

What's the point of installing an electric ferry if it's powered up from on-board diesel generators? That's.. like soooo close to the point be completely missing the point. 😂😭

one thousand and one meter wide viaducts with average length of one hundred thousand and one meters while the source of the water should be the ocean but the convergency paths ways of the streams are unknown cause of their connections with the reverse osmosis power plants communities

Pollution free ferry runs on electricity but charges by diesel engine😂😂😂😂.

13 Million for a 200m cablecar (cabine) replacement - only in Germany.... XD wtf

alot of key board engineers lamenting on the electric ferry,why don't you give credit where it belong or show us what you have engineered so far😢

Electric Fery Is Charged with Diesel Generator ,

The electric ferry that crosses the canal recharges the battery 4 times a day using an onboard diesel generator! Sorry but how can you claim it is a “pollution free ferry”?

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Why no map showing the geographic location on a Euro-map? A little help English speakers outside Europe.

Although the basic facts are interesting, like so many other documentaries today, this one is weighed down with a lot of phony, make-believe drama. The same trite expressions get a workout: "race against time".."the utmost precision"..."a mistake would be disastrous"..."one wrong move can have fatal consequences"...etc., etc.

the new lock been built at brunsbuttel is a joke by the time its finished will have taken over 12 years, the dutch built the the maasvlakte in 5 yrs 2000 hactares of new deepwater port

How are German canals and ports able to employ people who live in other countries. Doesn't Germany have their equivalent of a Jones Act? This would never be allowed in the US waterways without incurring massive fines.

Southern United States

If only other industries would take bote and reduce the experience requirements to start in them. Im not saying you immediately pay them top dollar, just be more willing to hire and train inexperienced people.

Western United States

😅 yess I am from Australia 🇦🇺 I can only be good 👍 for Asia 🌏 worldwide 🌎 usa 🇺🇸 should keep out of Asia. I am sick of the US 🇺🇸 telling us how to run my country Australia 🇦🇺 😢

Pollution Free Ferry ? Like electricity magically appears

19:00 "our environmentally friendly diesel powered batteries". lol wtf just use a diesel engine if you gona do silly crap like that

"....... the pollution-free ferry..". The ferry has two diesel generators to recharge the batteries.." 😂😂😂😂 all of this climate change jazz is a total joke!

"Electric Ferry" - with onboard diesel generator! lol what a lie people live...