2026-07-10 12:27 UTC
5/ Czechia 🇨🇿 is a landlocked country, so it may surprise you to know the country has an official port territory in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
Following WWI Czechoslovakia got a 99-year lease on a lot called Moldauhafen giving it sea access via the Elbe rivers. The Czech Republic inherited the rights.
The lease expires in 2028. There's currently a negotiation to swap the now-derelict, bridge-blocked plots for a more usable site near a real deepwater terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldauhafen
#geoweirdness
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@violanders@mastodon.nu 2026-07-10 13:13
@opencage@en.osm.town Another geoweirdness is that a similar arrangement existed in Stettin, despite that the Oder w/ tributaries isn't navigable to Czechia at all. I wonder what the purpose was. Were there plans for a canal between Czechoslovakian Elbe and Oder?