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Summary of World Canals Conference 2005
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With great pleasure, high ambitions and enthusiasm over a number of years, we drafted and planned the World Canals Conference 2005. Our hopes were to offer our friends and fellow canal enthusiasts as well as our professional colleagues a rewarding conference and numerous memorable occasions on and around our grand, old canals.

Our theme – Six canals in six days – took us on a journey right across Sweden, from Göteborg/Trollhättan in the west to our capital Stockholm on the east coast. Trips by boat allowed us to present the majority of our magnificent canals. During this journey, You were able to study how differently our canals have been preserved and they exhibited their heritage and the developed tourism in the surrounding areas. You have seen waterfalls, modern commercial vessels specially built for the Trollhätte kanal locks, aqueducts, lock-keeper and bridgemaster cottages, dry docks, Stockholm's archipelago, narrow boats from UK and much, much more.
 

Some may think that we were somewhat exuberant and over ambitious in the planning of this six-day trip. However, we believe and hope that this journey has given our guests something extra.

Soon we will give You a summary at this website - by words and pictures from the whole of the conference week.

Thank You for visiting us and see You soon again, The Association of Sweden's Canals through its president

Claes-Göran Österlund
Canal Director
AB Göta kanalbolag