Shaping the Panama Canal by Blasting-Pacific Complex's Works

摘要

The Panama Canal is one of the most important engineering projects of the modern era and plays a strategic role in the global economy and international maritime trade since its inauguration in 1914. Now, a little more than one century later, the final phase of its expansion program, the largest infrastructure works undertaken since its inauguration, has concluded. This expansion program has created a new lane of traffic along the canal with the construction of a new set of locks-one on the Pacific side and another one on the Atlantic side, increasing the canal's capacity and its impact on the world's economy even more.