The Panama Canal Expantion
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The Panama Canal is going to be expanding, This plan is aimed to spend $14 million, round about 7 million Cb mtrs will be dredged at an estimated cost of 200 million dallar.
This plan expanantion is also due to the incriment in demands by growing traffic adjacent to the Canal watershed -Panama, Chorrera, Arraijan and Colon. There is also reason that the number of ships transiting the Canalway could nearly double of current average -12,000 ships- in the next half dacad.
The total requirement of watershed per vessal per transit is 55 million gallon as per new expanation, The total requirement of Canal watershed with Gatun and Alhajuela or Madden Lakes will be 300 million gallons of water per day.
The Panama Canal is constructed between connection of North and South American Pool of land in Oceans of The Atlantic and Pacific, and is round about 80 kilometers large, both end of locks bears the name of the sites of the towns where it was built : Gatun -on the Atlantic side, and Pedro Miguel and Miraflores -on the Pacific side.
The current storage capasity of Gatun Lake is 2 mtrs, from its maximum 27 mtrs above sea level up to its minimum operating level of 25 mtrs. In this Canal a system used of locks -partition with input and output execution gates. The locks works on basis of water fill and empty: they raise ships from sea level -the East or the West- to the level of 'Gatun' Lake -28 meters above sea level; ships then passes the channel through the Continental part, The lock canal are round about 34 meters wide by 310 meters long. The water used to fill and empty vessels in each set of locks comes from Gatun Lake by principle of gravity;
The Canal has a work force of approximately 12 thousand employees and operates 24x7 hours and day. Hundrads of ships from allover the world passes through the Panama Canal. As an estimate 13 to 14 thousand times vessels used of the Canal per year. On commercial basis transportation transactions through the Canal is about 7% of the world of shipping business.
The current storage capasity of Gatun Lake is 2 mtrs, from its maximum 27 mtrs above sea level up to its minimum operating level of 25 mtrs. In this Canal a system used of locks -partition with input and output execution gates. The locks works on basis of water fill and empty: they raise ships from sea level -the East or the West- to the level of 'Gatun' Lake -28 meters above sea level; ships then passes the channel through the Continental part, The lock canal are round about 34 meters wide by 310 meters long. The water used to fill and empty vessels in each set of locks comes from Gatun Lake by principle of gravity;
The Canal has a work force of approximately 12 thousand employees and operates 24x7 hours and day. Hundrads of ships from allover the world passes through the Panama Canal. As an estimate 13 to 14 thousand times vessels used of the Canal per year. On commercial basis transportation transactions through the Canal is about 7% of the world of shipping business.
