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A New Panamax 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 ...
On top, several vessels waiting at Gatun Lake to cross the locks. At the bottom is the canal connecting to the Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean Sea). At the left of the existing locks is the construction area for the new set of locks with water-saving chambers, part of the Panama Canal expansion project which opened for traffic in June 2016. [2
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. [104]
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Port of Colón, Cristóbal (city) 8.7: ... Agua Clara Locks (2016) 3 chambers, 3 water saving basins each ... This is a route-map template for the Panama Canal, ...
In 2007, Panama began work on the canal’s largest expansion in nearly a century, a new set of locks that would allow larger ships – more than one and a half times the size the ships that ...
The Panama Canal is an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through Panama, saving ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel around the stormy, icy ...
With the new locks, the Panama Canal is able to handle vessels with overall length of 366 m (1201 feet), 49 meters beam (increased by the Canal Authority effective 1 June 2018 to 51.25 meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2 meters draft, [2] and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); [14 ...