Panama Canal


Panama Canal
A guide to cruising the Panama Canal by beth king Taking a cruise through the Panama Canal is something most people dream about but what makes this a special and unique destination? The canal changed the whole shipping industry by allowing ships, goods and people to travel from the Atlantic and Pac... More> Through the Panama Canal by ship by Robert Waldvogel Day dawned crystalline blue and hot over the Gulf of Panama. The sea's surface assumed a silk sheen. The Infinity, stretching 964.6 feet from bow to stern and rising 11 decks above the ocean, had already accepted its local pilot at 0645, and now thr... More>
	The Bush adminisration and the Panama Canal by Mohamed Elquza In 1914, the Panama Canal was opened, allowing ships to import and export goods much faster than usual. Each year more than 14,000 ships pass through it carrying more than 203 million tons of cargo. The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans... More> Panama Canal reopens after flooding by Bruce Tyson Flooding in the Panama Canal Zone forced the closing of the canal for an extended period of 17 hours, but now has reopened, according to Al Jazeera . The suspended operations of the Panama Canal were the first caused by weather in its nearly century... More>
The Panama Canal: French project versus American project by Richard Chipchase The Panama Canal runs for a length of 51 miles and a trip through it takes around 15 hours. It was built to avoid the long trip around the coast of South America which ships had to endure prior to its construction. Travelling from New York to San Fr... More> Work starts on $5 billion expansion of Panama Canal by Bruce Tyson What began as the smallest malaria-infested strip of land in the world that separates the mighty Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is about to receive a $5 billion dollar facelift. When the Panama Canal was built in the early 20th century it marked... More>
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