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The Panama Canal Gets an Update

Wide Berth By 2014, nearly a million containers a week will be able to pass through the Panama Canal. Panama Canal Authority The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too...

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Nicaragua Enlists China To Build An Alternative To The Panama Canal

Gatun Locks, Panama Canal 99 years old and still working. Stan Shebs, via Wikimedia Commons After a century as an only child, the Panama Canal is about to get a sister. Nicaragua announced recently...

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The Panama Canal Gets an Update

The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too long, too deep and too wide to fit through it. by 2015, 40 percent of the world's fleet will have…

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Nicaragua Enlists China To Build An Alternative To The Panama Canal

After a century as an only child, the Panama Canal is about to get a sister. Nicaragua announced recently that it is awarding China a contract to build an alternative to…

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Lessons From The Panama Canal, 100 Years Ago

Popular Science, Dr. John Silas Lankford from the University of Texas describes how "the country where death with grim terror reigned as king, queen and prime minister has…

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How The Panama Canal Changed The Shape Of War

One hundred years ago, the Panama Canal opened for the first time. A triumph of turn-of-the-century engineering, it connected Pacific and Atlantic, expanding the worlds of…

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Massive Panama Canal Upgrade Could Transform Global Shipping, Again

Over the past 20 years or so, traffic on the world’s oceans has quadrupled. Ships now carry 95 percent of the cargo imported to American shores. To move those goods more…

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