Inland waterways are potentially of great value to Estonia, but navigation is handicapped by the hydropower scheme with a dam 8m high on the river Narva just upstream of the town of the same name. The port of Narva, 20km inland from the Gulf of Finland, has recently been made accessible to ships drawing up to 3-4m, under an agreement between the Estonian and St Petersburg (Russian) waterway authorities. A lock adjacent to the Narva power plant would open up navigation through to Lake Peijpus, where a freight terminal has been built at Storoziets, and the Russian town of Pskov, but there do not appear to be any immediate plans for implementation of this project. The river Emaj˜gi is navigable for trip boats and other craft drawing up to 1.9m from Lake Peijpus to the country's second city, Tartu…