Danube-Black Sea Canal
The Danube-Black Sea Canal runs from Cernavodă to Agigea. It opened in 1984, and the 64km canal reduces the distance by boat from Constanţa to Cernavoda by 400km.The canal took over nine years to construct, 300 m3 of soil was excavated, by hand, by over 30,000 people. 4.2 million m3 of reinforced concrete was used in the construction.
It became known as the Death Canal (Canalul Morţii in Romanian) in an earlier attempt to build it when, during the communist purges, some 40,000 people, most of them convicts for political reasons, in Romanian forced-labour camps were worked to death on the project between 1949 and 1953.
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