Panama Canal: Post Panamax

An Original WPBT2 Production
Explore the future of the Panama Canal as it nears completion on a new set of locks expected to impact trade and the world's economy.
Copyright 2015 - Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[@matildekarandulis9078]

The biggest accomplishment of my country.I feel proud and satisfied. We succeded. w We are a small country and we showed up to the world we are capable of doing amazing things!

[@JeffDeWitt]

I'm assuming you are a Panamanian? I agree, while watching this I was thinking how cool it was that a little country like Panama would be able to do this, you've every reason to feel proud of your country.

[@brucejohnwayne7783]

Matilde Karandulis hopefully you guys can feed your homeless kids and troops now.

[@visho8979]

We didn't design or build the canal. We just paid for building it. This is the truth.

[@toninelson4528]

Matilde Karandulis

[@bigstuff52]

Hey George...go fuck yourself moron...

[@robmac3287]

Outstanding documentary, great to watch something that has not been completely dumbed down (at all).

[@TheMikewalking]

I was stationed at Ft. Clayton 1980-81. We could watch ships go through the Locks from the barracks. I got to see a lot of Panama from a helicopter, more on foot. I miss the green.

[@DrWoodyII]

The WOW factor kick in here. Go Panama!!!!!!

[@baltsosser]

I had a friend of mine in charge of his navy ship piloting it to and through the canal last year. He was pretty excited about that. The pictures he got were really good.

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Reading comments is disturbing. There is clearly alot of people that don't know about gravity or sea level. Oceans are all at sea level, they are the same. The lake between the locks is above sea level. Panama is like crossing the street but theres a 50 ft wall in the way, what do you do? Get a ladder (locks) to get across.The Suez canal has no locks because crossing that street there is No wall in the way. And water flows downhill out of the Lake to fill the locks. So if they use it too much the lake drains. That is why they are thinking of water savings. No sea water flows into the lake, impossible, why? Gravity. Water doesn't go uphill. The lake is the highest point

[@jerzykalita2762]

"Oceans are all at sea level, they are the same". Not exactly, not everywhere. When difference between tides at two ends of Suez Canal are less that 0.5 meters www.researchgate.net/publication/240441695_Sea-level_Variation_Along_the_Suez_Canal Tides at both ends of Panama Canal could be as much as 6 meters www.yourpanama.com/panama-canal.html Compare high/low water level at same time at Caribbean side and Pacific side of the Canal. Then calculate water current in the canal between those two coast. It will depend on the width and depth of the canal. Perhaps after this exercise you can realize difficulty or impossibility of big ships in two way traffic at this waterway without locks.

[@dennistedder3384]

Boy howdy. Morons born 1990 onward.

[@elpidioreyes933]

HighStreet Killers ggbbbbbbb

[@ChickieFarella11]

Viewed this by accident 2 nights ago on KCET public television So Cal. Amazning feat!!!

[@alesjamsek1199]

My father work on Panama ships in year 1955/56 .Ships was name San Pedro de Panama.Document of ships and photography is today in Slovenia etnography museum Ljubljana.

[@benitoubarro4471]

Ales Jamsek c

[@msgshillingford4324]

THIS IS HOW WORLD LEADERS SUPPOSE TO WORK,,,,....TOGETHER.........................ONELOVE..

[@azianblad]

Companies all over the world completed this project.

[@rafaelrodriguez5310]

the magnitude of this project amazing!!! two watch

[@lobsterscope]

Wacky Panama Canal factoid: To get from the Pacific side to the Caribbean Sea, ships actually travel northwest.

[@user-mw8um6mc3v]

You've intrigued me. How is it possible to travel northwesterly from a western point to reach east? Not saying you're wrong. I would love to know.

[@backdraft916]

p 28 If you look at a map of the canal, you’ll see that the Pacific entrance is SE of the Atlantic exit; ergo, traveling NW to get to the Caribbean.

[@dennistedder3384]

I've always followed information on the canal and especially the new build, but haven't seen anything...until now. "Very" good documentary; thanks, guys.

[@davidsempau8347]

Excellent documentary, except for the omission of mentioning Ferdinand De Lesseps and the French engineers that undertook the first part of the Canal’s history, as well as Goethals’s antecessors in the USA period, engineers Wallace first and then Stevens, prior to Goethals. Important also to mention that Panama, that was a province of Colombia, could become a nation thanks to the agreement between USA and the Panamanian secessionists to the USA not interfering with the secession in exchange for the completion and exploitation of the Canal by the USA. Bunau -Varilla, a former De Lesseps’ engineer, played a crucial role in this agreement. For those interested in the full history of the Canal, I strongly recommend the reading of David McCullough’s “The Path Between the Seas”, a true compendium of history, politics, economy, geography and engineering, extremely well researched and documented, with the additional plus of being readable as an adventures' novel full of juicy anecdotes.

[@MrRalph1001]

I love Americans

[@davidsempau8347]

Americans, what “Americans”? Canadians? USAs? Mexicans? Brazilians? Colombians? Peruvians?... and so on until 35 countries that share a continent called “America”. We all know that USA considers itself the center of the Universe, but there are much more “Americans” than just the USA citizens. www.saberespractico.com/estudios/paises-y-capitales-de-america/

[@terrysullivan1992]

Thanks for the recommendation. Just ordered via Amazon.

[@dennistedder3384]

Thanks professor!

[@nicksmith6845]

Thank you.

[@carolannwrightbentley12]

Trade is created by the canal, as shipping cost come down it makes it cheaper to send that item at your fixed Msrp to further places there by creating further trade. Cl

[@TheRealPlato]

thanks for upload, good job engineers and good luck! how do the casualties of the project compare to the thousands who died in the original two efforts?

[@jackajogoodwin609]

George Klk

[@stevengibson763]

An amazing engineering feat. Well worth watching!

[@pete5668]

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

[@pete5668]

***** What's wrong with no taxes? keeps the biz growing.

[@pete5668]

***** Who determines the "fair share" for the "rich" to pay? Envious bureaucrats who produce nothing, that's who.

[@pete5668]

***** Corporations aren't people, which is why they should not be taxed. You buy a lot of things from corporations, so when you ask them to be taxed more and more, you shoot us all in the foot because corporations don't really pay taxes at all. Corporations absorb the tax burden by raising prices for you and me.

[@jtfike]

Perhaps a therapist would help?

[@robertopoku3786]

Hi

[@daaaddaaad2695]

Respect to all those that lost there lives in the first canal construction!!!

[@jamiehenshaw1902]

Great documentary and as Robert MacLennan said below, not full of stupid comparisons for sizes and weights ie; football fields, elephants or buses etc.

[@briansmith9439]

Close - there was the mention of 16(?) Eiffel Towers of steel. That's a new one for me - wonder how many Olympic-size swimming pools that equals?

[@doyerknives9162]

It's the plan......"sure, you can have your canal back....what? you need more space? sure, we'll loan you the money to expand."

[@visho8979]

I am a Panamanian and I am not in favor of Americans leaving the zone. The negotiation should have been different, it should have been reducing US Military presence to zero, but keep operating the canal and expand it themselves. in other words make the operation free of military presence so the Panamanian Government could engage in a more business cooperation climate. The Panama government is a corrupt establishment ruled by businessmen thugs who basically pushed the government to get the US out of here, and bought the reverted lands at dirt cheap prices to make millions out of the port businesses, and real estate businesses. Panama could have grown much more had the Americans stayed here, and negotiated a treaty where they would give more participation to the local population in running the day to day operations of the canal. not only that, from the Era the treaties were signed, American corporations grew combined in the trillions and Panama's tax laws could have helped American business and industries set up here rather than going to Ireland. thanks to these corrupt thugs that rule the country, public education, healthcare and infrastructure is of bad quality and the income gap has widened terribly. Though the country seems.prosperous due to a real estate boom, the whole. lifestyle is built to attract and build and economy off foreigners but very little attention has been given to local population.

[@noway2341]

@Despicable Me Are you always such a racist prick? Or are you just a supreme keyboard warrior?

[@tomrobertson3236]

@despicableme just because you only read white history doesn't mean other races are stupid . Google black inventors or Spanish inventors. You racists views are from ignorance

[@davidheitman7004]

as an american. i really like you comments. i'm broken up we gave it away! just handed it over? it was actually your's anyway! but we're friends! let it roll! we should still help keep it maintained. write up a really nice contract!

[@mjb12141963]

You are assuming that the American government is not a bunch of thugs. They are some of the worst in history. They would not have give the canal away without expecting to profit from it or to dump it because they didn't want to pay for the expansion. Governments are run by politicians and they have no conscience. They take and take and as we speak are systematically finding ways to take away the hard earned money of our citizens by creating new taxes. Their new favorite is global warming. They don't care if it's real or not they only care that this opens up a whole new way to tax. Our government is no different than any communist or third world government they just do it with a lot more of the peoples money.

[@Nehmo]

@Jan van Coppenhagen Please explain where the Germans participated in the US Manhattan Project. Einstine, who did theoretical work essential to the bomb and who could be considered German, was actually Jewish, and he developed his main theory while he was in Switzerland. Lise Meitner, who figured out the fission of Uranium, was Austrian-Swedish but genetically Jewish. There were some scientists who fled Germany and who later worked for the US, but I believe they would prefer to be labeled American rather than German. That's what the US is. It's a combination of people from several nationalities. There is no genetic American (except maybe the Indians).

[@ackas4576]

Looks like Don Shula has a new job as the Panama Canal Authority administrator.

[@maxwelll1978]

All of this for trade. Moving mountains. Fantastic.......

[@MrSpeedlife]

When so much water is moved, someone has thought of pulling the energy out of the water with running water turbines ??

[@JeffyPDiddy]

34:53 Cash flow problem? They should have contacted Ace Hood. He literally would have been like "Knock Knock Bang Bang Where Da Cash At?" Problem Solved.

[@thomasbarlow4223]

Thats pretty good

[@jsmithepa]

Well first thing I thought was, no major problems, good for the Panamarians, going by all the shenanigans the Chinese are building elsewhere. Second thing I thought, I hope Jimmy Carter put something in place to guard against tired-old corruption. Don't have the answer on the later yet. Third, am proud that they had a female engineer, from Panama?, running the project.

[@jean-clauded5823]

Sorry, if Jimmy Carter had put something in place to guard against tired-old corruption then Trump, if seems more and more, would not have been elected.

[@stevemazz3121]

1.6 Billion dollars over budget or bid cost.... Yes, 1.6 Billion - 16 million, million dollars over budget. Well done Panama.

[@SirDeanosity]

40:00 Enough awesomeness for now. Great documentary! No political BS or vague generalities.

[@TheBoligga]

Congratulations Panama. Well done!

[@interestingspagetti]

Wow! Awesome achievement.

[@chrisrhudy2000]

So did it get finished or not?

[@dwetick1]

Anything today to get those post-Panamax ships from China to the East coast and Europe in the fastest way possible is not only do-able but essential.

[@Nehmo]

24:32 That chick is great! Let's get her here and make her president.

[@jaaca6259]

My buddy in the navy has gone through all of them now

[@markmcc78]

I read that the canal pilots are PISSED about having to use tugboats instead of locomotives to move the Post Panamax vessels... must be hell trying to negotiate them in locks together: ship, plus 2 tugs, one on stern and one on bow.

[@Vinlyguyx420x]

They coulda put a gawd dam hydro turbine in those large basins just to show that the concept of a large hydro battery could work, especially if you have 6 basin and 18 pools that seems like one hell of a wasted opportunity to showcase new technology.

[@DrBiBeatz]

Wow she really awesome woman very intelligent

[@gobil5274]

Tugboats, LOL. I can't wait to see how many ships are pushed by the wind into the side of the lock.

[@gobil5274]

***** The fact that the ships will be hitting with less force, does not change the fact that I think ships will hit the side. No ship in transit wants to hit the side and sit for repairs. I foresee giant fenders in the canal future.

[@hoangpham4468]

Can not compare the old canal with the new canal , remember old one was built in 1914, at that time no and no country , one and only one country can build it is USA.

[@Rog5446]

As water finds it's own level, why are there locks on the canal? If the locks were taken away, wouldn't the tide from one ocean just go through to the other and maintain the same water level? Or would the tides be like a tsunami?

[@christophergray2987]

Rog5446 the lake in the middle of the canal is above sea level and is an important freshwater lake

[@Rog5446]

@@christophergray2987 In that case, after all these years the fresh water would by now be diluted with sea water and hence, it would no longer be fresh water.

[@jackiebinns6205]

Why compare yourself to him? This is 100 years later ..better equipment and technology then he dealt with ...so there is no comparison!

[@jlions72]

One question did they take in to account what future ships size will be ..? how much room did they allow on the sides for even bigger ships ..?

[@jlions72]

That's pretty interesting to know ,thanks for answering my question

[@dumyjobby]

+George Klk you are very well informed, always a pleasure to read same informative comments

[@MrRalph1001]

we should have kept the Panama canal.

[@mexicoldermike3156]

Ok, can anyone answer this? If a 60,000 ton ship transits the locks and then a 20,000 ton ship does the same transit at the same tide levels on the north and south side of the canal.....how much water will be saved?

[@mexicoldermike3156]

+George Klk Thanks for that, quite a savings. You agree that regardless of the ship displacement the actual water usage will be the same.

[@littleblitz8239]

+Mexicolder Mike None, the locals use the difference to take showers.

[@kkkashifsayyad2425]

More 💝السَّـلاَم و علیکم ورحمۃ اللہ 🌞صبح بخیر 💝وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ ۙ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ وَأَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ 💝 💝🍃اللہ تعالیٰ🍃کا وعده ہے کہ جو ایمان ﻻئیں اور نیک کام کریں ان کے لئے وسیع مغفرت اور بہت بڑا اجر و ﺛواب ہے💝 🍃سورہ المائدہ 9🍃Translate from Urdu

[@expodelhi1]

Millions of cash rich Indians would like to visit this beautiful part of our planet.Majority of them are vegetarians. It means they never eat meat,fish and eggs etc. .They can visit near by carribean nations as most Indians are living there.So proper advertising can be useful.

[@healthyone100]

NO FLESH AND DAIRY MAKES YOU A VEGAN I'VE BEEN ONE FOR 32 HEALTHY YEARS!

[@Favorline]

I got a question, in this video, they talked about raising the ship and then lowering it again to get it over a mountain. why did they not just remove the mountain so the water could flow on its own through the Panama canal? plan it out. so they don't need to make it so complicated? water conforms to the earth gravity. so they should be able to just flatten it out and make it deep enough for the ship just to sail through. with no lowering and rasing. can someone explain this?

[@douglahdrum1]

money?

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Dig across a mountain below sea level the whole time. #1 the freshwater lake is gone. #2 then they'd have to dig the whole way. #3 however high the elevation the ground is would be how high the walls would have to be. It'd look like the Grand Canyon. Thats the whole reason it's where it is now, shortest distance and the lake for water to fill locks by gravity. And less digging

[@borzak101]

Google test on the new panama canal locks. Looks like something a 3rd grader would make in the playground. Giant chunks of cement just "missing" and water pouring thru.

[@danielpalos]

Is adding power generation from the water flow for the locks, a possibility?

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Aint worth it

[@DavidPT40]

Should have designed the gate a mile wide. Who knows how large ships will be in the next 100 years?

[@davidsempau8347]

Latest news Canal de Panamá opening: gcaptain.com/panama-canal-authority-books-first-transits-through-expanded-canal/?Captain+Newsletter&Mailchimp_RSS_CAMPAIGN& Containership declining business trends: gcaptain.com/grim-outlook-for-liner-shipping-as-continued-weak-market-pushes-carriers-to-the-brink/?Captain+Newsletter&Mailchimp_RSS_CAMPAIGN& gcaptain.com/maersk-line-to-hike-asia-europe-shipping-rates-by-550-per-teu/?Captain+Newsletter&Mailchimp_RSS_CAMPAIGN&

[@sc0tte1-416]

I've always wondered why the water levels between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans are different, considering they're technically the same body of water, so you'd think they'd be level with each other...

[@douglahdrum1]

The atlantic is heavier because of salinity. The pacific is less salty, thus lighter.

[@highstreetkillers4377]

They are at the same level, it's called sea level. Panama is like crossing the street but theres a 50 ft wall in the way (mountain). So you get a ladder (locks) to get across. The Suez canal has no locks cause its in the dessert. There is no wall in the way when you want to cross the street. The desert isn't high off sea level so no locks are needed

[@PhilJonesIII]

There are significant tidal differences between the two. 'Sea level' is not the same everywhere, even over distances of several miles. The term actually means 'average sea level' which accounts for the tides, prevailing wind, variations in gravity at the point of reference.

[@lottsalasagna431]

Amazing this was the best idea bird brain humans could come up with

[@robertmceachern2428]

This is a fantastic story to me for the simply fact of what this world of ours can/could.. accomplish simply by having large numbers of countries and corporations cooperating rather than wasting resources in war. We need a world government for true benefit to our future. I watch this documentary knowing that even as they were planning the expansion for ships in the 14,000 TEU size. We now have (in 2018) commonly built ships of 18,000 to 22,000 TEU's I see the logistics and cooperation needed to accomplish the desired outcome. Now, if we could magnify this expansion we could well start populating and exploiting the VAST resources all over our solar system. Just imagine a world that can access all those asteroids floating around us. Any single one of which, might supply our world with all its iron needs for hundreds of years. Or a single asteroid composed mainly of Diamond or gold. Yes you'll drop its overall value but so what.. Now you have a say, diamond surplus making it so cheap that its a perfect choice to line rocket engines. Diamonds are so beautiful regardless of their value. They'll still be highly desired (I think). We are not much different than the rat experiments. Where they gave the rats an environment and anything they might want. All was good till they began overcrowding their space.. That's when they began tearing each other to pieces even though they had no want for anything but space. We are not a self regulating species.. We are more parasitic to our world than symbiotic. If we can't cooperate and continue to expand we will wipe ourselves out of existence! The only silver lining to this is that the world will start all over from scratch with us as nothing more than a footnote in its hundreds of millions of years of existence.

[@goodcolimgpu10]

it good they did this then we can build newer ships who carry more and emits less co2, so for every big ship they can scrap 4 old buckets, they just need to scrap them right way not just full speed onto a african or asian beach

[@sebastiandrumond9161]

can I found this video but in spanish or with subtitles???

[@pushpushlambert8079]

Why not use the boats weight and waters gravity to fill a water tower ... then use the water to fill opposite locks ... or to propel the boat ..... Maybe I don’t see this in this design ... Best regards Paul

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Water displacement doesn't work like that

[@jean-clauded5823]

Water will naturally seek it's own level between bodies. But we need to also LIFT the boats as they enter the lock.

[@jackiebinns6205]

They dealt with strikes as well ! And he fired all the men that would not work..and had to rehire new men .plus many workers died ..I don't think its Even close to the challenges that they had 100 years ago ! I know its big to you people working on it but its not near the challenge they had !!! And the fact that 100 years ago a doctor had to come in and completely eradicate yellow fever ! Dont you guys know the history of what those people went thru ? Shit you got it easy compared to 100 years ago !!!

[@lottsalasagna431]

Labor strike so much for your great vision

[@Billy982810]

awesome

[@PhilJonesIII]

I've had a pretty successful career. Yet I look at projects like this and wonder what I did with my life.

[@bretmatt6324]

Panama is just lucky country where they can built a shortcut way to the rest of the world.

[@denisetrine3066]

They already have some ships that won't fit through the new lock.

[@douglahdrum1]

To build a wider lock cost money.

[@Anonymous-or4ru]

Previously 4400 teu's max? Now expanded to 13000 max? If container ships now carry 19000 and are further expected to grow, how long and wide does that make them and does it prevent using Panama's canal? Surely a further jump of 6000 to todays largest container ships makes them once again bigger than Panama can handle? If so, why would they not have built larger as a contingency, rather than losing their business to the Suez?

[@Anonymous-or4ru]

Thanks for that George, was an interesting read. Maybe like you say it did come down to budget & proven technology. Will be interesting to see if what they have created is effective enough

[@Anonymous-or4ru]

^ Holy shit! Mad money

[@stargazer4683]

19:00 He reminds me of Gus from breaking bad.

[@Angry.General1461]

Can it hold a nimitz class aircraft carrier?

[@highstreetkillers4377]

The old one can. Us makes ships to fit always. Thats why they built it. War = progress

[@WhallonJesse]

7:19 More democracy than we have in the United States. If this was done here, politicians would ask, " Will this help my campaign next term and make me rich?" If Yes, do the canal. If this was no but helped the American people, "fuck'em".

[@marconius101]

+Jess Whallon They are free to choose who ever the U.S appoints in Panama. What's the problem..?

[@TheZen900]

Gaillard Cut is still the largest Cut in the world. A Cut is when you cut straight through a mountain. Gaillard is French named after an American engineer who designed the process to achieve the Cut. Gaillard is pronouncd Gill-yard. There are historial markers in South Carolina where Gilliard grew up. Without Gaillard designing the Cut the Panama Canal could not have ever been built.

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Lol, learn french

[@richintalent]

I want to work there...

[@estanleyarias7914]

Waoooo Panama sity

[@moffatsabango1238]

The expansion of the Panama canal is war against the earth , the physical challengers and obvious impediments in place , to achieve a success.

[@highstreetkillers4377]

You dont make sense, but the canal saves the planet everyday

[@jean-clauded5823]

Spend tons of Diesel fuel making tankers go around the southern tip of south america? Is that a better option?

[@ronaldmeadows1198]

Awesome, Right, I love this stuff.... The question is what can't man and woman concur... We rule..... Go people.... cool.. as always STAY COOL ~ ♤ ~

[@charlieterry5357]

Any contribution from the UK?

[@davidclements6507]

YEP Elf and safety we supplied the hazard vests

[@nicholasmccain5818]

I feel like that woman didn't really know a whole lot about what was going on. She didn't give any details and only said things like that big hill over there and this big wall over here.

[@highstreetkillers4377]

She's the token female. Glad there a Zero women machinists

[@godbluffvdgg]

32:45 Great use of labor...7 guys filling the bucket of a front end loader WITH SHOVELS! lolz! That was the most asinine thing I've ever seen on a giant construction site in my 35 years in construction!

[@godbluffvdgg]

***** The machine was right there...No, what you saw is busy work...A bunch of laborers with nothing to do being given something to do...

[@godbluffvdgg]

***** True.

[@texdoc5699]

From time of conception to finish is amazing. No matter what some say about the size or who does what, the scope of the project was a beginning. The first plane or train didn't carry hundreds of people. Open your eyes people that condemn. And those that do, I feel for you, with a silver spoon in your pampered butt. Get a grip, and when and if you feel you know it all, go and hold your dads hands, look at them, then ask him if you can wash them after looking at your unblemished fingers. NUFF Said,

[@mawazoselemani614]

I use same type of gate in my toilet door!

[@RS4-AIRLINES]

Boys just do /fill ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ air

[@entropylackthereforeof347]

SO PANAMA REFUSES TO REDUCE ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Thats what the locks do. Already has saved alot.

[@alainarchambault2331]

39:53 Hell, they installed buildings

[@nrml1]

Yeah, the Pana-maw canal

[@austrorus]

and what do the PEOPLE of Panama get out of it? lower taxes? cheaper products? anything else?

[@highstreetkillers4377]

They get a GDP. I doubt they export very much. Their country can exist

[@Gobbersmack]

This voice over sounds like Rand Paul and Newt Gingrich at the same time.

[@richardmikesell1335]

Its Jim Lerher The guys who's on PBS news hour.

[@jowilson2532]

neat alright

[@markanixon77]

38:56 Did the Panama Canal have to pay the Panama Canal to use the Panama Canal lock!?!?!? Lol

[@infinion3]

IF this was the USA, theres no way this would have been constructed. Tree huggers, environmentalists would have ended this plan before it even started. A rare flower or fishes that can die from the explosion or whatever bs you can think off lol

[@joeskis]

Can someone explain why the Panama Canal, unlike the Suez Canal, uses locks? Why do they need to change elevation when going from sea level to sea level?

[@jbrown4779]

At least 3 reason? 1. It has to cross the continental divide, much higher than see level. Moving that much earth would be far more costly than building the locks. 2. Depending on the time of day and tide levels, the two oceans can be as much as 18 feet different, resulting in currents too swift for navigation in the narrow cut. 3. The Chagres River flows into the canal creating equally swift currents that must be controlled.

[@muir1578]

To lift ships to Lake Gatun, which meant they didn't have to dig all the way through the isthmus.

[@reneboygelicame8919]

suez has no locks because Mediterranean sea and red sea are in the same level

[@joeskis]

reneboy gelicame Right, which is the basis of my question. I got the answer though so thanks.

[@paulwilkinson1539]

Bullshit!

[@kennygottfried6818]

Tour of shows in Branson mo,

[@littleblitz8239]

And it's still not finished.

[@littleblitz8239]

Jack Tarasar Yea, I couldn't believe when the video said we let it go. How stupid.

[@douglahdrum1]

The least was up.

[@LeonAllanDavis]

Lost me on the metric measurements... Click out...

[@TheWyodon]

And the country has a bad history of some dictator there shutting it down unless he gets his cut.

[@littleblitz8239]

+TheWyodon That's typical.

[@nancycampbellgibson2634]

TheWyodon No, it doesn't.

[@oceandrew]

+TheWyodon You talking about Trump now? 'Coz Manuel Noriega hasn't been around for almost a generation.

[@jean-clauded5823]

Kinda like a president shutting down the US until he is able to get his wall built?

[@NaYawkr]

Constructed by those wonderful Spanish Speaking Peoples that TRUMP doesn't want in America because they are just too accustomed to hard work, and too competent. You can understand then why such people make a loafer and pretender like Trump more than just a little uncomfortable to have around him.

[@egidd]

All that work because of...consumerism?

[@highstreetkillers4377]

Capitalism! Without it we'd be dead by 40 and living in caves. Capitalism drives innovation and war drives invention. Both are why there is a canal. We need WW3 to kill socialism before its too late. Freedom is in jeopardy

[@carlkennedy687]

[@gregcollins3404]

The basic problem is that there is too much global trade. Having one factory in China or wherever supplying everything that the rest of the world needs isn't good for the economies of the various nations. A lot of distributed factories are better than one factory distributing everywhere via cheap shipping. Now that the world is going into recession with the Baltic Dry Index at record lows, I wonder if the expanded Panamax is a mistake.

[@stanthology]

+Greg Collins Tell that to Bill Clinton, "Mr. Globalist".

[@nancycampbellgibson2634]

stanthology That's right. Bill Clinton did it all by himself.

[@oceandrew]

+Greg Collins I wonder if people who are so threatened by the globalization "menace" are also the first to avoid shopping at places like Walmart to keep the mom & pop shops open on Main Street. Check the labels, Mr. Collins, of your clothing and small appliances. Is your money (shopping) where your words (politics) are?

[@toninelson4528]

Greg Collins

[@welshpete12]

what a silly thing to say , read some history and you may see why it is vital to have this lock system !

[@arturaskarbocius828]

I lot of blasting , what is how Nobel became richest European.

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