PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it was confident in the future of a commercial waterway linking the Seine river to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, after it obtained increased European Union funds for the multi-billion euro project.
The Seine-Nord canal is a 106-km (66-mile), high-capacity waterway, the biggest European canal project in 30 years and the first in France since World War Two. It is designed to relieve some of northern Europe's most congested motorways by shifting freight from trucks to barges.
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