Panama canal expansion: how it works
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- The expansion of the Panama Canal will not be ready for its 100th anniversary on August 15 as initially hoped by canal authorities.
Aimed now to be completed by June 2015, the project was proposed in 2006, began in 2007 and has cost so far US$ 6.5 billion, Newsweek reported.
Connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, the canal currently uses locks in which water flows by gravity and raises ships 26 metres (85 feet) above sea level. Ships can then travel through artificial lakes and channels until they reach another set of locks leading to the sea on the other side.
The expansion of the canal will feature new sets of locks that will allow the 81-km-long channel to accommodate even bigger vessels.
The new locks will be larger but use less water than the existing ones. Basins next to them will recycle water from the locks as they are emptied, and use this water to partially refill the locks when another ship passes through. Water from the canal’s lakes will also be used to fill the new locks.
The new locks will be able to handle ships that are longer, taller and wider. Per-ship cargo capacity will nearly triple, from the current roughly 4,500 standard-container limit to roughly 12,000 standard containers.
These changes will make the Panama Canal more competitive with the alternative Suez Canal route, which can currently accommodate much larger ships
The Panama began operating in in 1914. It cost about US$420 million and took 40 years to complete.
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this is well demonstrated
sort of
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I'm satisfied with your explain
I seem to be missing something: the lake is 26m higher than the entering/exiting canals, what prevents the lake from running dry if it constantly adds water to the locks? Or is the water pumped back into the lake?
That area of the world receives a Lot of rain... so, the water needs to go somewhere- why not out, via the canal?
Viva 🙌🏻 Panamá 🇵🇦 😎
Locks, locks, locks, locks, locks, locks, locks and locks. Also locks.
Locks locks locks.... who's there?
this proves Teddy's Big Ditch is back in the game. it was marvel that it is in 1915 and it is the marvel that it is today without Panama Canal the cargo won't get delivered the world depends on it.
Trade between Europe & Asia doesn't need the Panama Canal. But it is great for trade between the west coast of North/Central America & Europe, & between the east coast & Asia.
David Keenan it is needed because ships have to take the long way after the big giant supermax came out when the Panama Canal was built it can only hold up to the Panamax size Suizmax could get through but barely. With the new Panama Canal every ship can get through Suizmax, Panamax, Supermax, and Alfamax.
"With the new Panama Canal every ship can get through"
Not quite. The container vessel MV Barzan, the first of six of its class, can't use the new locks. At 400 metres long, it & two tugs can't fit into the new locks. It's 34 metres too long. But this doesn't matter because they are only designed for journeys between Asia & Europe, & they can use the Suez Canal.
David Keenan yes it can instead of one gate and his wife there are two gates it and a tugboat can fit.
Sorry, I'm sure you are wrong. These massive vessels need at least two tugs, one fore & one aft, to transit the locks. So though the lock basins are 425 metres long, the maximum length of vessels that can use them is 366 metres.
So the MV Barzan and the Maersk E Series, eight in that class, are just too long.
My opinion of the canal expansion is that it is a marvelous achievement. Credit goes first and last to the Panamanian people.
Sure they used foreign contractors, they had no choice, but this most important maritime transit hub will be staffed mainly by Panamanians, and this expansion ensures the security of the nation for generations to come.
Thanks for sharing...great expo
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the question is can it handle ever given?
Nice ad...but HOW DOES IT WORK?
By the use of gravity
By the way guys the lake the ships are going into is higher than sea level so if there were no locks the ships would have to go up a gigantic waterfall of nope
I want to see it hold a nimitz-class aircraft carrier!
A HAPPY NEW HUNDRED YEARS .
Lucky to pass the canal
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Alternative Suez canal-route? That doesn't really make sense. If in shipping from New York to LA I won't take the Suez canal.
0:55 "the new locks will be able to handle ships that are longer, taller and wider". Nope not taller, the Bridge of the Americas is still the same height.
Maybe means a bigger draft, not height above a waterline.
Unless youre planning to sail a skyscraper through the Canal none of the bridges should be a problem
I would like to see a nimitz-class aircraft carrier fit through there.
It wouldn't be any larger than those mega-freighters; in fact smaller measured by deadweight tonnage. The last US fleet carriers that could transit the old locks were the Essex class, IIRC. Midway class ships retrofitted with angled flight decks were too wide. There was also going to be a BATTLESHIP class called the Montana class that would have too much beam. It would have carried 12 of the Iowa class's 16 in/50 cal [barrels 50 times 16in] guns but with more armor and slower top speed.
What about the canal that’s supposed be built in Nicaragua?
so after the expansion, emma maersk can now pass through panama canal?
+Anthony Mina Nope, too long
basically it fits, since the emma and triple e are 400 meters long and 52 meters wide, and the canal is 425 meters long and 55 meters wide, but for safety reasons they decided not to let in ships longer and wider than 366 meters, 50 meters wide
+Abraham Alvarez
The safety aspect relates to the need for tugs both fore & aft to steer these neopanamax vessels through the locks. The new locks can't fit two tugs and a vessel longer than 366 metres in the locks.
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The Chinese wants Nicaragua to compete against Panama
+Phillip Unrau Because Pacific and Atlantic Oceans do not have the same water level. Thats why The Panama Canal have a lot of Locks.
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how is suez alternative? its on the other part of the world... you can use both.
Because they both are chock points.
In order to get bigger modern ships from Asia to Europe/North America the Suez is the only practical way. The problem is its longer and less safe than the Panama route.
The Suez Canal route is dangerous because of pirates groups near of the coast of Somalia, Eritrea and others countries.
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why do we need locks ? just dig a canal and let it be .. wil the water not be there in the canal for the ships to travel on it ?? some 1 plz explain
Not feasible...because of physics and stuff....sorry I was so technical
The locks are needed so that ships can travel upward into the lake. The lake is not made to the same depth as the ocean so the locks are needed.
woldrau777 well I wanted to know the reason in depth. thx for trying though
if you dug straight through it would be a giant rapids so the ships could only go through one way and not the other
The lake between the locks is 26 meters above sea level. That giant rapid wouldn't last very long.
A palindrome: "A man, a plan, a canal--Panama!"
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Top 10 people who already knew about canals before the evergreen incident..
Way to go President Carter. "Ships have outgrown the Canal, we are relinquishing control of this vital waterway to Panama." The Panamanians had no idea how to build it or the resources to do it. We should have kept control of it and expanded it. Manuel Noriega sure enjoyed it's revenues.
Yep, we stole it fair and square! The Isthmus of Panama was part of Nicaragua. They wouldn't give the US a right-of-way to build the canal, so we engineered a little revolution to make Panama an 'independent" country.
Panama was part of Colombia
The Revolution was Engineered. Secondly, the US made France and the United Kingdom give up their claims over the Suez Canal in 1956 (during the Suez Crisis) even though they had much more legal weight in their claim (The French made it and the English controlled it till the 1950s). So it was a tad bit hypocritical on the part of the US to want to stay in Panama when they were arguing against the same thing in Egypt.
For a better understanding, do read:
1. Convention of Constantinople, 1888
2. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
3. Suez Cana Crisis
4. American Invasion of Panama
Such crisis were the very reason we finally adopted the UNCLOS (Convention of the Laws of the Seas).
Lastly, the President of Panama being a "bad man" was no reason to not give back what was theirs in the first place. Very silly aregument and dripping with Hypocrisy. There are many a dictoators in the world who were and even are supported by the US. Libya (until they decided to stab him), the Saudi Royal family, the South Korean Dictators and many others. So Heh.
Peace!
nice job idiot, i know the history of the canal but it is still the land of panama and not the us
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Can someone explain something to me...like I don't know how the panel works...I mean does panama owns the panel or it's free? Por like you have to be friends with panama to pass? :(
Yes, it's free, but you have to be friends with them to pass through. Pretty much like your girlfriend.
irving_wp cool
Yes,Panamá do owns the Canal, it isn't free though the price depends according to the containers and..all that stuff.
Im from Panamá btw.
Purple Fairy Some ships can pay upwards of 200k dollars US for a one way trip threw the canal, probably even more for the new larger ships on the new locks, definitely not free, but better then spending 4 weeks traveling around South America.
So it's a good business nice
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I don't know why they said panama and suez are compete against each other. They're in a different side of the world
I think they are talking about the route between Asia and Europe, where both canals could be used.
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Why don't they dug up the Panama canal deeper and get rid of the locks?
they actually try to do this, but it was imposible because of the terrain. there where to many mountains and big rocks etc. so the cheapest way and most efficient way to do it was by making an artificial lake witch they had to make a smaller hall then going all the way down to sea leve. then building the system explane in the video. the first company that try to make the panama canal was from France and they ran out of money after only completing 10% of the canal. when the Americans took over the project they had to change the way it was going to be build if not they would have fell as well. any other question just ask :) just a good Panamanian loving his country!
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What a mess. Just get rid of the chambers and locks, make it much much wider and greater. I’m Chinese and I can’t stand this type of narrow minded engineering.
Animals cant cross now like they did for mileniA
You couldve owned this and britain could have owned the suez. (Which would benefit both our countries) Good move america.
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Longer; taller; faster; fatter
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Just nukes the entire length of canal! And create 10km wide free to use passages!
spoken like a true American
hyou zan ren Excuse me? My school is 1 klm away from the canal.
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