LOUTRAKI, Greece – At the Control Tower of the Corinth Canal, the captain of a yacht in the Saronic Gulf contacts the traffic controller over the radio notifying her that his boat is approaching and it would need to refuel before passing through the historic Canal to the Gulf of Corinth. It’s a busy day at the scenic Corinth Canal on a sunny afternoon.
“Copy that, Captain. Proceed half mile to the canal entrance and call us on Channel 11 to receive clearance for the pier,” the traffic controller says, resting her binoculars on the table next to the computer screens.
The yacht is then told to prepare fenders before it parks at the pier. The captain will have to visit the office on the ground floor of the Control Tower where they will take down all the information about his boat and he will pay the fee before his yacht can pass through the canal only one convoy at a time on a one-way system.
Yachts and other recreation boats, which want to experience the extraordinary passage thought the canal, make up half of the revenues for the Corinth Canal because they pass in large numbers, especially in the summer.
It is a tourist attraction and smaller boats also want to avoid the long journey around the Peloponnese. The other half of the revenues come from commercial ships, Corinth Canal S.A. General Manager George Zouglis told New Europe at the Control Tower.
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