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It is one of the three tributaries of the Oder that empty in the Baltic Sea, meeting the coast at the location of the city of Swinemünde.
In 1897 the river was dammed and deepened, and the Kaiserfahrt was dug by the German Empire, which connected the Swine with the Stettin harbour, and as such gained import as a direct waterway to the industrial city of Stettin.