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2. Panama Canal locks - Wikipedia

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   The Panama Canal locks (Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage.

3. Miraflores (Panama) - Wikipedia

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   Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean port of Balboa in ...

4. Panama Canal - Wikipedia

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   The new locks opened for commercial traffic on 26 June 2016, and the first ship to cross the canal using the third set of locks was a modern Neopanamax vessel, the Chinese-owned container ship Cosco Shipping Panama. [86] The original locks, now over 100 years old, allow engineers greater access for maintenance, and are projected to continue ...

5. Panama Canal expansion project - Wikipedia

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   A Neopanamax ship passes through the Panama Canal's Agua Clara lock in 2019. The Atlantic Bridge is seen in the background.. The Panama Canal expansion project (Spanish: ampliación del Canal de Panamá), also called the Third Set of Locks Project, doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal by adding a new traffic lane, enabling more ships to transit the waterway, and increasing the width and ...

6. Culebra Cut - Wikipedia

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   Culebra Cut Construction in 1909. The United States took over on May 4, 1904. Under the leadership of John F. Stevens, and later George Washington Goethals, the American effort started work on a cut that was wider but not as deep, as part of a new plan for an elevated lock-based canal, with a bottom width of 91 metres (299 ft); this would require creation of a valley up to 540 metres (0.34 mi ...

7. Template:Panama Canal map - Wikipedia

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   Pedro Miguel Locks. 1 chamber, +9.5 m (31 ft) ... This is a route-map template for the Panama Canal, a waterway in Panama. For a key to symbols, see ...

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9. File:RMS Franconia, entering Panama Canal locks.jpg

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   English: SS Franconia, entering Panama Canal locks, Cunard White Star Line ship, ca. 1930, gelatin silver print, Ernest G. Best postcard collection of merchant vessels, naval vessels and sailing vessels, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 722/1492-1497