Navigation for the transport of goods on the L’Escaut River goes on day and night in any weather.

L’Escaut / Esco est un fleuve en France, en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas. Longueur - 430 km, superficie du bassin - 35 500 km². La consommation moyenne d’eau est de 100 m³/s. L’Escaut prend sa source en Picardie, dans les Ardennes, se divise en Escaut oriental et Escaut occidental, se jette dans la mer du Nord, formant un estuaire. Les principaux affluents sont le Lis et le Rupel. Schelde River, also spelled Scheldt, French Escaut, river, 270 miles (435 km) long, that rises in northern France and flows across Belgium to its North Sea outlet in Dutch territory. Along with the Lower Rhine and the Meuse rivers, it drains one of the world’s most densely populated areas. As a waterway, with its numerous branch canals and navigable tributaries, it serves an area including the agriculturally important Flanders Plain, the Belgian textile centres, the coalfields of northern France, and the industrial complex of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing. The chief tributaries of the Schelde are the Scarpe and Lys on