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The Albert Canal is a canal located in northeastern Belgium, which was named for King Albert I of Belgium. The Albert Canal connects Antwerp with Liège, and also the Meuse River with the Scheldt River. It also connects with the Canal Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten, and its total length is.Size and geographyThe Albert Canal has a standard depth of and an overhead clearance of. To allow four-stacked container traffic, bridges over the canal are currently being heightened to allow for a overhead.The largest vessels that can use this canal are barges of just 10,000 tons - much smaller than the ones on the Rhine or the Danube or the ones in the waterways of the United States and Canada.Between Antwerp and Liège, there is a difference in elevation of, and six sets of canal locks were needed to overcome this difference. Five canal locks each have a lift of, and these are located in Genk, Diepenbeek, Hasselt, Kwaadmechelen, and Olen, Belgium. The sixth lock at Wijnegem has a lift of.