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How large can ships be to use the Three Gorges Dam ship lift?
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) near Yichang, Hubei province, China.
The ship lift at the Three Gorges Dam is designed to accommodate vessels of up to 3,000 tons. This mechanism allows these ships to bypass the five-tier ship locks and navigate past the dam more quickly than they could using the locks alone.1