Full transit through NEOPANCAN (New Panama Canal), Southbound [4K]

Time-lapse: full transit with a NEOPANAMAX container ship through the new locks of the Panama Canal Expansion project from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, January 2018.
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The Panama Canal Expansion Project created a new lane of traffic in Panama Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, thus doubling the waterway's capacity.
About 18 million cubic meters of material were removed by dredging and dry-excavation operations to widen the existing Atlantic entrance navigation channel and the north access channel to the Atlantic locks.
The original Panama Canal had two lanes, each one with its own set of locks, allowing them to accommodate vessels up to 294.13 m (965 ft) long, 32.61 m (107 ft) wide and 12.04 m (39.5 ft) deep. The Expansion Project added a 3rd lane with lock complexes at both ends of the Canal, allowing it to accommodate vessels up to 366 m (1,201 ft) long, 49 m (161 ft) wide and 15.2 m (50 ft) deep.
The works on expansion formally began om 03rd of September 2007 and the expanded Canal begin commercial operation on 26th of June 2016.
Both the new lock complexes have three consecutive chambers designed to move vessels from Atlantic Ocean level to the level of Gatun Lake and back down to the Pacific Ocean level. Each lock chamber is 427 m (1,400 ft) long by 55 m (180 ft) wide and 18.3 m (60 ft) deep. The new locks have a total of 16 rolling gates. Each gate is 57.6 m (189 ft) long, 8 to 10 m (26 to 33 ft) wide and 22.3 to 33 m (73 to 108.4 ft) high (depending on the location of the chamber). The weight of each of the 16 gates ranges from 2,100 tons to 4,200 tons. The gates have an estimated total cost of US$550 million (including transportation).
The project raised the maximum operating water level of Gatun Lake by 45 cm to increase the maximum allowed draft and to improve Canal's water supply by nearly 200 million cubic meters, allowing about 1,100 additional transits every year. About 30 million cubic meters of material were removed by dredging operations to deepen and widen the navigational channels in Gatun Lake and in Culebra (Gaillard) Cut. About 50 million cubic meters if material were removed by dry-excavation to create the Pacific Access Channel that links the 3rd set of locks (Cocoli Locks) to Culebra Cut.
A 2.3 kilometer long dam (Borinquen Dam) needed to separate the waters of Miraflores Lake from those of the new Pacific Access Channel was built for this project.
Each lock chamber has 3 water-savings basins, each basin being 70 m (230 ft) wide by 5.5 m (18 ft) deep. There is a total of 18 water-saving basins for the entire project, allowing to reuse 60% of the water in each transit. A total of 8.7 million cubic meters of underwater material was dredged to widen the Pacific entrance and for the partial construction of the south access to the Cocoli Locks.
The overall cost of this project is estimated at US$5.25 billion.
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[@YusufTalibhan]

It's very nice. I'm shoked. Thanks

[@sre15]

Nice video, very illustrative. thanks for share it. Ships across the expanded canal are called "NewPanamax". Almost all active container ships in the world can travel across the 2 systems of locks (Panamax and NewPanamax).