PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC OCEAN

The idea of the Panama Canal dates back to 1513, when Vasco Núñez de Balboa first crossed the isthmus of Panama. The narrow land bridge between North and South America was a fine location to dig a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The earliest European colonists recognized this, and several proposals for a canal were made. The realization of such a route across the mountainous, jungle terrain was deemed impossible at the time, although the idea remained tantalizing as a potential shortcut from Europe to eastern Asia.
Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The project was helped by the elimination of disease-carrying mosquitoes, while chief engineer John Stevens devised innovative techniques and spurred the crucial redesign from a sea-level to a lock canal. His successor, Lt. Col. George Washington Goethals, stepped up excavation efforts of a stubborn mountain range and oversaw the building of the dams and locks. Opened in 1914, oversight of the world-famous Panama Canal was transferred from the U.S. to Panama in 1999.
Going through the Panama Canal can cost as little as $1500 to as much as over $900,000 depending on the following criteria.
Type of vessel, Length, weight, (ballast or laden), beam, height of cargo above floor, tugboat requirements and whether the vessel is transiting the Panamax or neopanamamax lanes, but despite the price you will be saving a lot more if you choose to cross Panama Canal instead of taking another way.