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This 16-page paper discusses the planned expansion of the Panama Canal, the reasons for it, and the effect the expansion might have on shipping, particularly with regard to China and the Port of New York. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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New technologies were developed to build it, and thousands of workers died of disease during its construction. Cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, it connects the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans directly, negating the need for sea traffic to make the long, dangerous and difficult trip around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Begun by the French,
the Canal was finished by the U.S. in 1914, establishing Panama as an independent nation and changing the face of Latin America forever. Now, it appears that the Canal is
reaching its limits: it is expected that it will be at full capacity between 2010 and 2014, due to the size of the locks and the limitations on the
fresh water used to operate them (Vasquez, 2005). Talk of expanding the Canal has been on-going for some time, but now it appears that a plan is being developed
that will actually carry the construction forward. Well explore some of the ramifications of the planned expansion in this paper. The Canal The design of the original Canal
is brilliant, as it uses gravity to do the work. Its a freshwater canal, with all the water used for operating the locks coming from Lake Gat?n. When
the U.S. became involved in construction, the engineers decided that it would be too difficult to dig a sea-level canal, since the two oceans are at different heights. Instead,
they dammed the Chagres River at its Atlantic mouth, creating a reservoir (Lake Gat?n), which lies "26 meters above sea level" (Brooks, 2004). Two-way Canal traffic is accommodated by
two sets of locks, parallel to each other, which lift ships up to Lake Gat?n. The ships sail across the lake and then are lowered to sea level by
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