Just inland from the United States Atlantic Coast, the Chesapeake Delaware canal connects the Delaware River and the City of Philadelphia with the Chesapeake Bay and the city of Baltimore. This narrow man-made canal is located at the Northern end of the Del Marva Peninsula. it was designed to eliminate the 500 km maritime route around the Delaware Maryland shoreline. The Chesapeake Delaware Canal is the busiest of its kind for marine traffic in the world, used by 15,000 vessels each year.

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