A boat lift or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between two different water heights, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane.
It may be either vertically moving, like the Anderton Boat Lift, or rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel.
The world's highest boat lift, with a 73 metre height difference and European Class IV (1350 tonne) capacity, is at Strépy-Thieu in Belgium (Strepy-Thieux, french version ).
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