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Yantan Ship Lift

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2021
Entity authorityQ8048974 ↗
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The Yantan Ship Lift is a large ship lift located on the Hongshui River, a tributary of the Pearl River in China.

The ship lift's basin can carry vessels of up to 250 tons.

The ship lift's basin is 40 metres (130 ft) × 10.8 metres (35 ft) × 1.8 metres (5.9 ft).

It lifts vessels 68.5 metres (225 ft).

It is an example of a Vertical Hoist Shiplift.

The ship lift is part of the Yantan Hydroelectric Project, and was completed in 1986.

The dam was built with the assistance of the World Bank.

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