Gliwice Canal

…city’s inland port on the Gliwice Canal, Poland’s busiest port, ships Silesian exports via the Oder (Odra) River to the Baltic Sea. Gliwice has a polytechnical institute (1945) and a fine museum and is noted for its parks and landscape. Pop. (2011) 187,474.

…link, by way of the Gliwice Canal, between the great industrialized areas of Silesia (Śląsk), in southwestern Poland, and the trade routes of the Baltic Sea and beyond. The Oder is connected with the Vistula, Poland’s largest river, by means of a water route utilizing the Warta and Noteć rivers,…