There is a lake port called Kalundu at the southern end of the town, which provides links by boat to Kalemie, Kigoma in Tanzania, and Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.

Under the command of Geoffrey Spicer-Simson the Royal Navy achieved the monumental task of bringing two armed motor boats Mimi and Toutou from England to the lake by rail, road and river to Kalemie on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Bukavu's proximity to the Lake Tanganyika ports of Bujumbura and Kalundu-Uvira give it an additional advantage, with access on the lake to the railheads of Kigoma ( linked to Dar es Salaam ) and Kalemie ( rail link to Katanga, in need of rehabilitation ).

The river leaves lake Tanganyika at Kalemie and flows through a gap in the highlands westward through the Tanganyika District to join the Lualaba between Kabalo and Kongolo.

The port at Kalemie was built to connect the Great Lakes rail line ( from the Kabalo junction on the Lualaba River ) to the Tanzanian lake port and railhead at Kigoma, from where the Tanzanian Central Railway Line runs to the seaport of Dar es Salaam.

* The port town of Kalemie is the railhead for the D. R.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

The force was deployed in four sectors at Kananga, Kisangani, Kalemie and Mbandaka.

Around 1800, in the second half of the rule of the Luba Emperor Ilunga Sungu, Luba forces launched raids over the Lualaba that at one point reached as far as Kalemie.

Kigoma is, one of the busiest ports on Lake Tanganyika, since historically it was the only one that had a functioning railway connection ( the one at Kalemie in DR Congo is not operational ), a direct link to the seaport at Dar-es-Salaam.

* Kalemie, Kulundu-Uvira and Moba on Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma ( Tanzania ), Bujumbura ( Burundi ) and Mpulungu ( Zambia ).

* Kalemie to Kalundu-Uvira on Lake Tanganyika

Kalemie, formerly Albertville or Albertstad, is a town on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kalemie Port is operated by the railway company SNCC which also operates the railways in DR Congo ( except for the Matadi-Kinshasa line ) as well as boat services on the eastern waterways in the country.

The Luama rises in the mountains to the west of Lake Tanganyika, in the Kalemie Territory of Tanganyika District.

Kalemie Port is also used by boat services to the northern Lake Tanganyika ports of Kalundu-Uvira and Bujumbura in Burundi, and southwards to Moba and Mpulungu in Zambia.

The epicentre was approximately below the surface of Lake Tanganyika, some 55 km south-east of Kalemie.

Pottery belonging to a western stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kalundu ) has been found at sites in northeastern Zimbabwe, dated from the seventh century.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

The lake drains to the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River, historically making the lakeside city of Granada, Nicaragua, an Atlantic port although it is closer to the Pacific.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

** In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

Claudian describes the ancient city as extending to a considerable length towards the promontory or headland, the projection of which sheltered its port: the latter affords good anchorage for large vessels ; but besides this, which is only a well-sheltered road-stead, there is adjoining the city a large salt-water lake, or lagoon, called the Stagno di Cagliari, communicating by a narrow channel with the bay, which appears from Claudian to have been used in ancient times as an inner harbor or basin.

This name comes from the Lympia spring which fed a small lake in a marshy zone where work on the port was started in 1745.

During the civil war between Octavian and Antony, Agrippa tried to turn the lake into a military port, the Portus Julius.

Some ports on a lake, river ( fluvial port ), or canal have access to a sea or ocean, and are sometimes called " inland ports ".

The area was projected in approximately 1900, mostly backed by financing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania capitalists who hoped to make it into a lake port for Mount Clemens.

Sylvan Beach used to be a shipping port for all of the lake back in 1820, Barge Canal made the final stage of transport most important during the 1920s and 30's.

It was once a lake port.

The port is still in use today, accepting cargoes of iron ore and limestone from lake freighters.

Huron was also the home port of several commercial fishing fleets before lake pollution decimated the industry on Lake Erie in the early 1970s.

Her parts were landed at the Pacific Ocean port of Mollendo and brought by rail to the lake port of Puno.

The small town of Izabal is on the south shore of the lake ; before the construction of the ports of Livingston and Puerto Barrios in the 19th century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port and was the original seat of Izabal department ; nowadays, however, Izabal town is a remote village that gets little traffic.

The layout of the town, a large main street running parallel to the lake shore with a cross street the connects the port with the hinterland, follow the construction patterns of typical Zähringer towns.

When these were finally ready to sail, the American squadron was further delayed in port when Chauncey fell ill. As a result, no reinforcements or heavy guns could be sent to Brown while the British were able to move several units across the lake from York to reinforce Fort George.

The path then continues around Lannacombe Bay to Start Point and its Lighthouse and then through Start Bay along a 3-mile ( 5 km ) shingle causeway between Slapton Sands and the Slapton Ley freshwater lake and nature reserve before entering the estuary of the River Dart and historic port of Dartmouth.

Soonafter a large port was built on instruction of the Prussian king, whereby a 34 meter broad channel between the Łebsko lake and the Baltic Sea was dug, which however did not weather the storms on the coast.

In addition to Collingwood's position as a lake port, it is also served by Collingwood Airport ( CNY3 ), a medium-sized airport located about 4 miles ( 7. 4 km ) south of the town.

Situated on the shore of Lake Victoria, Bukoba lies only 1 degree south of the Equator and is Tanzania's second largest port on the lake.

Pully lake front and port