Watch: Filling Of New Pacific Side Channel of the Panama Expansion Project

Watch the process to fill the new channel that will connect Culebra Cut to the new locks in the Pacific side began, as part of the Panama Canal Expansion Program’s fourth phase of the Pacific Access Channel (PAC-4).

The Panama Canal expansion project, also called the Third Set of Locks Project, is intended to double the capacity of the Panama Canal by 2016 by creating a new lane of traffic and allowing more and larger ships

Reference: Panama Canal/YouTube

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