This publication summarizes the research carried out in the Netherlands in the 1960s into the dimensions required for the cross-section of ship canals if push tows are to navigate safely with other types of inland shipping.
The research was conducted by a working party set up by the Director-General of the Department of Water Control and Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat); in addition to the appropriate Rijkswaterstaat services, the Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, the Nether- lands Ship Model Basin in Wageningen and the Department of Naval Architecture of Delft University of Technology were represented on this working party.