Kiel-Canal
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About UCA

UCA United Canal Agency GmbH is your shipping agency at the Kiel-Canal – the most frequented artificial waterway in the world.

We attend to vessels as fully licensed Kiel-Canal agents and as port agents in the related ports – Kiel, Rendsburg and Brunsbüttel.

UCA operates from both ends of the Kiel-Canal with offices in Kiel-Holtenau and Brunsbüttel, employing a staff of more than 60 persons.

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Our services

We offer you a wide range of services 24 hours a day/365 days a year:

Kiel-Canal agents
Port agents
Liner agents
Cruise agents
Navy Service agents
Husbandry agents

On request we arrange the following supplies:

Storage/
Warehousing

Forwarding/
Logistics

Stevedoring

Customs
clearances

Compass
adjustments

Projects

Repairs

Nauticals

Tug-assistance

Provisions

Bunkers

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A Moving centuryThe Kiel-Canal in the course of history

1784

The 43 km Eiderkanal was completed in 1784 and was part of a 175 km waterway from Kiel to the Eider mouth at Tönning at the west coast. It was rather narrow and only 29m wide at the surface, the water depth was 3m.

1887

On 3rd June 1887 the Emperor Wilhelm I. laid the foundation stone in Holtenau near Kiel. It took eight years to build the Kiel-Canal. Up to 8.900 workers were employed in the project.

1895

In the early hours of the 20th June 1895 the German imperial yacht 'Hohenzollern' - on board the Emperor Wilhelm II. - slipped into the lock at Brunsbüttel, shortly afterwards cut a ribbon and officially opened the new waterway transitting to Holtenau.

1914

In order to meet the increasing traffic and of course also the expanding German naval interests, the canal's cross-section was considerably increased between 1907 and 1914. The enlargement projects were completed by the installation of each two larger locks in Brunsbüttel and Holtenau.

1995

On 20st June 1995 the 100th anniversary of the Kiel-Canal was celebrated. The highlight of the celebrations was again a convoy of ships travelling from Brunsbüttel to Holtenau now led by the German sail training ship ‘Gorch Fock’.

Gallery: Some impressions of the Kiel-Canal

Kiel-Lighthouse

The pilot leaves Kiel-Lighthouse

The pilot comes on board

Sailing on Kiel Fjord

Entering Holtenau locks

Kiel-Canal clearance

Passing under the bridges near Kiel-Holtenau

Levensau bridges

Passing under Levensau bridges

Siding

busy traffic

Towards the west

On the way to Brunsbüttel

Contact

Kiel-Holtenau (Head Office)
Maklerstraße 11
D-24159 Kiel

Tel.: +49 431 30107-0
E-mail: ed.la1701502365nac-l1701502365eik@i1701502365kacu1701502365

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Brunsbüttel (Branch Office)
Schleuse
D-25541 Brunsbüttel

Tel.: +49 4852 8309-0
E-mail: ed.la1701502365nac-l1701502365eik@b1701502365bacu1701502365

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Kiel-CanalConnecting the world

Licensed Kiel-Canal agents

About UCA

Our team organigram

We offer you a wide range of services 24 hours a day/365 days a year:

On request we arrange the following supplies:

Storage/Warehousing

Forwarding/Logistics

Stevedoring

Customsclearances

Compassadjustments

Projects

Repairs

Nauticals

Tug-assistance

Provisions

Bunkers

Ask for more

Calculate transit expenses

Calculate port expenses

1784

1887

1895

1914

1995

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Transit expenses

Port expenses

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Kiel: +49 431 30107-0

Brunsbüttel: +49 4852 8309-0

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