Waterway transport plays a very important role in economic and cultural development, foreign trade exchanges, and large-scale, long-distance transport. It is the main form of transport that plays a major role in trunk transport.

In the inland rivers and coastal, water transport is often used as a small means of transport, serving as a supplement and bridging the task of high-volume trunk transport.

The status of waterway transport in the national economy waterway transport industry is different from other industries in the national economy, it has its infrastructure and does not produce tangible products, but provides transport services for products in the flow of business.

The waterway transport industry is not only a service sector but also a basic industry of the national economy, such as waterway transport in the waterway, water buildings of dikes, berths, anchorages, and port facilities show that the waterway transport is a basic industry sector of the national economy.

This basic industry is capital-intensive, technology-intensive, labour-intensive, and information-intensive.

The role of waterway transport in the development of the national economy is a ribbon, which is linked to the world through transport across the sea and rivers.

Today, as human history is moving towards the 21st century, waterway transport, which is more convenient and cheaper than air transport, is still the main way to link the global economy and trade, undertaking global and inter-regional transport of goods and becoming the main transport link for global integration and regionalization of the world economy.

Waterway transport plays a role in promoting the development of the national economy. In the process of operation, waterway transport is not only closely related to shipbuilding, construction, manufacturing, and other industrial sectors but also closely linked to the financial and insurance industries.

Its development for the economic trade services ensures the role of the national economy to promote the development of its development, it is also the development of the national economy-related industries to create employment opportunities for the national economy to make an important contribution to the accumulation.

Waterway transport plays a fundamental role in the development of the country's export-oriented economy through international shipping.

Good port infrastructure and quality of shipping services in the waterway transport system is an important condition for attracting international capital, and the development of Liu's national economy has an important gateway role.

For example, the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is a sea-level waterway that runs through the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt and connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, providing the closest route from Europe to the lands near the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most heavily used shipping routes in the world.

The Suez Canal also serves as the borderline between Asia and Africa and is the main route between Asia and the people of Africa and Europe. The canal is 190 kilometers long from Port Said in the north to Suez City in the south and is dug north of Port Said into the Mediterranean Sea to the south of Suez.

Located in Panama, Central America, the Panama Canal crosses the Isthmus of Panama and connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, making it an important shipping route and one of the seven engineering wonders of the world. The Panama Canal is owned and managed by Panama, and is a lock-type canal.