The Kennedytunnel is an important road, rail, and bicycle tunnel to the south of Antwerp, Belgium, under the Scheldt river.

The road tunnel forms a part of Highway R1 – the not yet completed inner ring motorway surrounding the city.

Between 1945 and 1960, the volume of traffic passing through the Waaslandtunnel had quintupled – in excess of 38,000 vehicles were travelling through the tunnel per day.

In 1963, Minister Georges Bohy, following the advice of his technical experts, decided in favour of a tunnel.

The road tunnel was the scene of a particularly severe fatal traffic accident in October 2006,[1] after which traffic speed was restricted to 70 km/h during working hours, rather than the higher 100 km/h limit applicable on the rest of the Antwerp Inner Ring Road.