mv Bregaglia first official seagoing vessel to pass new mega lock in Terneuzen (NL).

With a symbolic push of a red button, King Willem-Alexander and Belgian King Filip opened the New Lock in Terneuzen. The construction of the sea lock took more than seven years. The new lock is on Dutch territory, but its main purpose is to make the port near the Belgian city of Ghent more accessible to larger ocean-going vessels.

Kings Filip of Belgium and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

The lock is 427 meters long, 55 meters wide and almost 16.5 meters deep. This makes the structure one of the largest locks in the world. It is as big as the locks in the Panama Canal.

New North Sea lock. Terneuzen

Geographic position, new North Sea lock.

So the first official Post-Panamax ship to pass through the lock, during the opening ceremony, was the mv Bregaglia. Because of her width of 38 meters, it was previously not possible to pass through the existing locks at Terneuzen.