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    Panama Canal Brochure

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    The document discusses the Panama Canal's Third Set of Locks project. It describes how over 10,000 workers from 40 countries worked to construct the extraordinary project, which required innovation and fast responses to challenges. The Third Set of Locks expansion allows the Panama Canal to double its current capacity to meet increasing trade demands. It provides a similar locking operation as the existing locks but can accommodate larger ships and requires less time and water usage. The project ensures Panama maintains its role in international trade into the future.

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    Panama Canal Brochure

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    The document discusses the Panama Canal's Third Set of Locks project. It describes how over 10,000 workers from 40 countries worked to construct the extraordinary project, which required innovation and fast responses to challenges. The Third Set of Locks expansion allows the Panama Canal to double its current capacity to meet increasing trade demands. It provides a similar locking operation as the existing locks but can accommodate larger ships and requires less time and water usage. The project ensures Panama maintains its role in international trade into the future.

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    The document discusses the Panama Canal's Third Set of Locks project. It describes how over 10,000 workers from 40 countries worked to construct the extraordinary project, which required innovation and fast responses to challenges. The Third Set of Locks expansion allows the Panama Canal to double its current capacity to meet increasing trade demands. It provides a similar locking operation as the existing locks but can accommodate larger ships and requires less time and water usage. The project ensures Panama maintains its role in international trade into the future.

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    The document discusses the Panama Canal's Third Set of Locks project. It describes how over 10,000 workers from 40 countries worked to construct the extraordinary project, which required innovation and fast responses to challenges. The Third Set of Locks expansion allows the Panama Canal to double its current capacity to meet increasing trade demands. It provides a similar locking operation as the existing locks but can accommodate larger ships and requires less time and water usage. The project ensures Panama maintains its role in international trade into the future.

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    PANAMA CANAL

    REALITY AND POSTERITY

    The Third Set of Locks would not have


    been possible without the great human
    resources that have taken part in the pro-
    ject, from its beginning and conceptual de-
    sign to its final construction.

    More than 10,000 workers of 40 different


    nationalities, with high qualifications at eve-
    ry level, have made this extraordinary pro-
    ject a reality.

    The Third Set of Locks is an amazing pro-


    ject that has required a great deal of work
    and effort, creating significant challenges
    and unforeseeable difficulties, for which the
    professionals involved have provided fast,
    effective responses.

    A titanic project of tremendous technical


    complexity, because of its scope and be-
    cause it required the use of great amounts
    of innovation to design and execute the
    best solution.

    The Third Set of Locks is a key mega-


    project designed to allow the Panama Ca-
    nal to double its current capacity and meet
    the increasing international traffic and trade
    demand.

    Without a doubt, The Third Set of Locks is


    a colossal project that will forever go down
    in the history of engineering and human-
    kind
    REFERENCES: PANAMACANALTHIRD SET OF LOCKS
    HTTP://WWW.SACYR.COM/ES_EN/IMAGES/
    AF_FOLLETOWEB_INGLES_TCM30-20361.PDF
    The Third Set of Locks Project

    HOW IT WORKS

    HISTORY EXPANSION The operation of the Third Set of Locks is


    August 15, 1914. On that day, the similar to that of the existing locks: there
    The Panama Canal Expansion Project is are gigantic lock gates which allow the
    Panama Canal opened with the transit
    one of the largest and most ambitious vessels to enter and exit towards the
    of the steamboat “Ancon”. The Ameri-
    infrastructure works in modern engineer- chambers, which are filled with water and
    cans’ support was essential to push
    ing. The key project is the construction of act as elevators, raising and lowering the
    forward a opportunity that France had
    the so-called Third Set of Locks. This is a vessels to the different levels existing
    attempted to lead in 1879 which ended
    new transit way which runs parallel to the between the ocean and Gatun Lake until
    in bankruptcy, making clear that the
    current locks. It consists in two enormous their transit is completed. But there are
    solution for Panama could not be a
    and complex construction works, one important differences between the cur-
    sea level canal, but rather a Canal with
    located in the Atlantic and the other rent and the new looks.
    locks.
    on the Pacific, each stretching almost
    two kilometers in length.  The new locks have a higher capaci-
    ty, therefore allowing the transit of
    larger vessels.
    This project, that is being strategically
     They are also faster: they require
    and meticulously designed, will allow the
    less time to be filled and emptied
    Panama Canal to reach more than twice
    and use 7% less water than the cur-
    its current capacity, in order to be able to
    rent locks.
    attend the ever increasing demand of
    international trade.  They have nine basins on the side
    for recycling water, which makes it
    possible to save up to 60% of this
    The Third Set of Locks reduce ships’ precious resource.
    transit time and allow bigger vessels,
    known as Post-Panamax, to transit the
    water way. Panama needed to undertake
    the expansion of the Panama Canal in
    order to preserve its hegemony in inter-
    national trade. And the new locks are,
    without a doubt, the most efficient and
    Under the American leadership, within effective solution.
    ten years and with more than 75,000
    people working around the clock, one
    of the engineering wonders of the
    World was complete.

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