Vistula Spit canal project to be opened this year says minister

A new canal that will cut across the Vistula Spit, allowing Polish ships to reach the Baltic without having to pass through Russian-controlled water, will likely be opened this year, a deputy infrastructure minister has said. The new waterway will take ships sailing across the Vistula Lagoon from the port of Elblag to the Baltic. At the moment they have to sail round the spit through Russia's Strait of Baltiysk.