Six-yearly lock gate maintenance completed

Water flows in at the Cuxhaven sea lock in Germany

Three lock gates that have to be overhauled every six years have been dutifully serviced on time at the German port of Cuxhaven.

The gates have to be drained and flooded regularly in a complicated procedure that takes five months from start to finish.

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