Sunday morning we entered the Pacific side of the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks.
It won't be long before Colombian rebel forces pose a credible threat to the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal is expecting to double its traffic once the new locks are completed.
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"This is not the Corps that built the Panama Canal, " said Joe Bruno, another plaintiffs' attorney.
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From Rotterdam to Seattle via the Panama canal, the saving would be 2, 000 miles, over 20%.
Commercially, the Panama Canal has little choice: either it expands, or its trade will dry up.
Panama Canal expansion is a key factor in linking the Louisiana production to Asian markets.
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Similarly, federal construction of the Panama Canal began where a failed private French consortium left off.
With Manta and the Panama Canal under Chinese control, the above mentioned scenarios should be taken seriously.
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Greenpeace activists tried, and failed, to stop a ship carrying reprocessed nuclear fuel through the Panama Canal .
Jakarta, Rotterdam and Felixstowe (Britain's largest port), plus terminals in Myanmar and on both ends of the Panama Canal.
Another cemetery in Panama dates from 1914 with remains of soldiers and others from Panama Canal construction and conflicts.
The U.S. is scheduled to turn over full operation of the Panama Canal to Panama two years from now.
The Panama Canal is a bottleneck, and shipping around Cape Horn is expensive.
Ships too big to go through the Panama canal would save even more.
The ability to defend the Panama Canal from acts of terrorism or sabotage.
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My candidates are the Panama Canal, the Thames Barrier and the Channel Tunnel.
And its system of locks restricts the Panama canal to vessels of a given beam, known in shipping as Panamax.
The first and most vital is the Panama Canal which is now under the control of the Chinese shipping company, Hutchinson Whampoa.
Carnival sends 16 of its ships from the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, the Panama Canal and Europe up north for the 20-week Alaskan summer.
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In the past year, some American congressmen portrayed Hutchison's winning of two 25-year contracts to manage Panama Canal ports as a threat to U.S. national security.
But nowhere are the changes more apparent than along the Chagres River itself, dammed in 1913 to form Gatun Lake, as part of the Panama Canal project.
The game offers a grand total of 14 levels, each taking you to different locations around the world such as Germany, Venice and even the Panama Canal.
Later in my journey, it took 22 days on a cargo freighter to get from New Zealand through the Panama Canal and back to Philadelphia, to finish my round-the-world adventure.
Unlike Colombia, Panama is reluctant, at least in public, to seek help from the United States, which gave up control of the Panama canal only last December.
Ortega's forces are dredging the river as part of an Iranian-sponsored project to build a canal along the Isthmus of Nicaragua that will rival the Panama Canal.
Rep. Solomon also read a letter prepared for the Roundtable by former Senator Paul Laxalt , leader in the Senate of the opponents to the Panama Canal Treaties.
Before the 1914 opening of the Panama Canal, Valparaiso was an important stopping point for travellers sailing between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, making the city an economic and cultural centre.
Unlike Suez, the Panama canal is running near full capacity.
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