The Danish straits are the straits connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak . Historically, the Danish straits were internal waterways of Denmark ; however, following territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany , while the Great Belt and the Little Belt have remained Danish territorial waters . The Copenhagen Convention of 1857 made all the Danish straits open to commercial shipping. The straits have generally been regarded as an international waterway .
8-557: Copenhagen Convention can mean: Copenhagen Convention of 1857 governing transit passage through the Danish straits , whereby a group of shipping nations bought out the Sound Dues in the Øresund A bidding convention used in bridge ; see Copenhagen convention (bridge) Copenhagen Accord , a document adopted at United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 Topics referred to by
16-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Copenhagen Convention of 1857 The Copenhagen Convention , which came into force on 14 March 1857, is a maritime treaty governing transit passage through the Danish straits . It has abolished the Sound Dues and all Danish straits have been made international waterways free to all commercial shipping. Its provisions were later reaffirmed by Article 282 of
24-528: Is situated between a "belt" and a "sound", typically the broader strait is called "belt" and the narrower one is the "sound": During the 20th and 21st centuries the surrounding areas grew in population and cross-border trade developed, particularly as part of the European single market . The European Union Scandinavian–Mediterranean Corridor runs north-south through the Danish straits. Ferries crossed many of
32-664: The Treaty of Versailles , becoming binding for its parties. Although the Convention does not cover warships, military vessels have also been free to traverse the straits, regulated by the general international rule of innocent passage through international straits and the Royal Ordinance of 1976. It had been increasingly evident that the Sound Dues had a negative impact on the port and merchants of Copenhagen , although
40-546: The United States , signed in Washington the same year, gave American ships free passage in perpetuity for a one-time fee of $ 393,000. A number of canals were built in part due to the trouble to pass the Danish straits . Danish straits Five straits are named 'belt' (Danish: bælt ), the only ones in the world . Several other straits are named 'sound' (Danish, Swedish and German: sund ). Where an island
48-501: The dues delivered by then one eighth of the Danish state income; and the world's seafaring nations were becoming less and less tolerant of these tolls and restrictions. In compensation for the abolition, the Danish state received a one-time fee of 33.5 million Danish rigsdalers , paid to Denmark by the other European shipping nations who signed the convention. Of the total fee, Great Britain paid approximately one third, and Russia another third. A similar convention between Denmark and
56-581: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Copenhagen Convention . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. See also [ edit ] Treaty of Copenhagen (disambiguation) Treaty of Copenhagen (1660) Treaty of Copenhagen (1441) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Copenhagen_Convention&oldid=1107485985 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
64-579: The straits but some of these have been replaced with fixed links to reduce journey times. Most significantly, since 1999 the powerhouses of Hamburg and Copenhagen have been linked without the use of ferries. The fixed links include: The Germanic word "sound" has the same root as the verb to sunder in the meaning of "to separate". The Old Norse form of that verb is sundr . In Norway hundreds of narrow straits separating islands and combining fjords or outer parts of fjords are named "Sund". Another explanation derives "sound" from an ancient verb "sund" in
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