The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, increasing the waterway’s capacity. The new locks will have three chambers, water-saving basins, lateral filling and emptying system & rolling gates.
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that the Panama Canal Expansion will be officially inaugurated on Sunday, June 26, 2016. The announcement was made this morning during the inauguration ceremony of the Canal's state-of-the-art Scale Model Maneuvering Training Facility, which will provide additional hands-on experience to pilots and tugboat captains to operate in the Expanded Panama Canal.
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Authority has produced a video explaining how the new neopanamax locks will operate once they are open. This video is a combination of real images and animations and it is designed to illustrate a virtual transit of a neopanamax vessel beginning at the Atlantic Entrance and proceeding through the entire transit ending at the Pacific Entrance as it moves on to its final destination
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal announced that Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium responsible for the design and construction of the Third Set of Locks Project, has successfully completed testing of the reinforcements in sill #3 of the Cocolí locks.
Read moreDetailsPanama Canal Authority announced that a new set of larger locks for the Panama Canal will be complete by the end of June.
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that the expansion of Panama Canal is 96 percent complete.
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Expansion Pacific Access Channel, which connects the new locks with Culebra Cut, has reached the level of Gatun Lake on November 2015.
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks,
Read moreDetailsThe Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, increasing the waterways capacity.
Read moreDetailsPanama Canal Update : Rectification of Cracks will not delay the canal opening
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