Canal Movement- The (+1) Movement

[Yoper]

Please explain the +1 movement notation the is on the map with these two canals.

If a ship is in the Eastern Med and moves to the Red Sea is it one movement point or two?  (Same scenario for a ship from Baltic Sea to North Sea.)

Is the canal actually considered a sea zone for movement purposes?  That would support the side that it takes two movement points to move from a sea zone one side to the a sea zone on the other.

Craig

[John D.]

Hello Craig,
      The canals (Suez, Panama and Keil) are treated like separate sea zones for movement pruposes ONLY.

Moving form the Eastern Med to the Red Sea would be 2 movement points.

Naval units can not "occupy" a canal zone though.

For example - if British Naval units had to retreat one space from the Eastern Med - they would end up in the Red Sea. That is the only exception to movement through a canal.

John