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9 Facts about the Panama Canal Expansion

9 FACTS ABOUT THE PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION PROVIDED TO YOU BY MERCATRADE.COM The estimate time The cost will be over for completion is $5 billion dollars 8 years panama canal SET FOR 2015 The allowed length of ships will increase from Two sets of locks are added on both the Atlantic and Pacific 1% 160% 200% side of the isthmus The width and the length of the locks will Container load will increase by 160% 965ft to 1200ft increase from The total annual tonnage traveling through the Panama Canal will increase The allowed width of ships will increase from from 275 million tons 4800 to 12,500 600 to containers/ship containers/ship 275 600 million tons 106ft to 160ft Materials used 1500 tons of 3600 5 million cubic meters of concrete 1.2 million tons of ammonium gelignite nitrate explosives tons of cement 279,000 47,200 for the lock gates tons of reinforcing steel tons of structural steel 436,000 tons of volcanic ash or slag from blast furnaces tons of steel for 20,000 the lock valves @mercatrade About mercatrade facebook.com/MercaTradelatinAmerica Mercatrade is the leading online B28 marketplace, helping importers and exporter: do business in one of the world's fastest growing market - LATIN AMERICA plus.google.com/101601720121076767324/posts linkedin.com/company/mercatrade-sa 2 pinterest.com/mercatrade/ mercatrade CONNECT WITH LATIN AMERICA Sources hp www.pancanal com http://en wikipedia prgwikimplicaNBan del Caral dn PananCAT httu.micaraldepiaama com fafficial webaite fram pan canal com

9 Facts about the Panama Canal Expansion

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