The future ventricle of world trade is 3000 tons, looks like a giant box and moves on to a specially-built tracked vehicle like in . Slow Motion meter by meter above
Jorge Luis Quijano himself finally announced the saving message: “This was for us a very important operation, because it is the first movement a water gate from the quay was to the interior of the new locks. ” Successful operation, installed floodgate. Finally.
Compared to the gigantic monster, the manager of the Canal Authority ACP acts like a tiny ant. The Panama Canal is getting ready for the super-ships. In the future, ocean-cruiser as well 41 meters wide “Queen Mary 2″ can pass through the channel as well as freighter with 12,000 instead of 4,000 containers transport performance.
Quijano’s good news makes people breathe in Panama. Finally, the controversial expansion of the Panama Canal for positive headlines. A total of 16 of these giant sluice gates are now brought to their precise location calculated by little. Each time this is a spectacular spectacle that drives the pulse of the engineers involved in the height. Because of the expansion of the Panama Canal is also for her technical territory.
In such dimensions has not yet been built and every transport, every installation of a new lock is also a small risk that provides an adrenaline rush among the workers. The locks are like giant heart chambers of world trade, which incessantly pumps, tankers and freighters through the aquifer. Are there problems here come the markets in trouble.
Nothing is so important for Panama as its channel
Actually, the started years ago expansion of the channel should be ready for the 100th anniversary of his first descent on August 15, 2014 on time. But funding problems and the major technical challenges make the construction work to a gamble.
more important that Jorge Luis Quijano his compatriots is encouraging. For nothing is so important to the state treasury and thus for the prosperity and the economy of the small Central American country such as the Panama Canal. It determines the presidential elections, the budget debates and well-being of the 3.3 million Panamenier.
Panama’s former president Ricardo Martinelli, until a few months still in office and one of the driving forces of the expansion, expected thanks to the billion investment in new locks and channel technology with thousands of new jobs. The will be added to the already 45,000 jobs already depend directly on the channel.
But also Martinelli, a billionaire businessman, got the pitfalls of canal construction to feel. His popularity ratings plummeted at the end of his term, because his promises when it came to the schedule and the budget of 5.2 billion dollars, were not observed. He too was a victim at the end of the channel: Ironically, his political archenemy Juan Carlos Varela, a former companion of Martin Ellis, won the elections this year – with the criticism of the bad management of the extension. Martin Ellis candidate failed.
pulsates The Central American country, which suggests Panama city whose skyline is full of skyscrapers and the ever-expanding. This is also helped Panama international banks that have settled in the tax haven and attract funds from those countries who took it last a little strict with the tax laws.
The airport is expanded, with new hotels springing up, a lot of new apartments waiting to be purchased, a new metro is the pride of the capital. And now even the expansion of the Panama Canal, which forms the backbone of the economy of this small country.
The United States called on the government of Panama
The artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific together, not only for cruise tourists a popular destination because it guarantees a spectacular view. It is also one of the main lifelines for world trade. In addition to the Suez Canal in Egypt, the Panama Canal is considered the best known compound of the world’s oceans at all. The driving force behind the construction were a century ago, the Americans, who sought a faster access to markets in Asia for the industry on its east coast.
The rise to world trade superpower USA is also associated with the construction of the Panama Canal. The current problems in the extension appear ridiculously small compared to the first years of the planning of the channel. The French tried to end of the 19th century in vain in the mammoth project that previously inspired the imagination after the construction of the Suez Canal. Malaria mosquitoes gathered up hundreds of workers there, the construction devoured enormous sums and then led the charge in the madness. The French gave up and the special purpose Panama Canal Company went bankrupt.
beginning of the 20th century came the Americans. Previously, U.S. troops had practically still occupied the land portion which actually belonged to Colombia. They called from the supposedly independent state of Panama. The weak Colombia could not resist this invasion. As the Americans bribed a few recalcitrant politicians, the conquest was finally legalized and established the new US-friendly state.
Only since 1999 the channel belongs to the Panameniern
Especially U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was then the driving force for the project, which would bring the United States economic policy in a new position. The Americans managed to overcome the difficulties in planning. They also decided for a lock solution, the simplified much in the construction of the proposed initially without locks channel.
Until 1977, it should be before U.S. President Jimmy Carter negotiated with General Omar Torrijos the contracts named after them. Since 31 December 1999, the channel belongs officially Panama and will of the Panamanian Canal Authority Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (ACP) managed. How important is the authority for the country, is the fact clear that the President of Panama appoints the Board.
Panama’s population identify themselves with the building. That pride was last American billionaire Donald Trump to feel, as the ironically commented, then-US President Jimmy Carter would have almost given away the canal 30 years ago. His PR people have since then deliver maximum benefits to Panama straighten the image of the American again. Trump has opened in Panama City’s tallest hotel in Latin America. Nevertheless, he is no longer welcome in Panama since his verbal gaffes.
Competition from Nicaragua
The economic success of the channel arouses in the region many envious. Competing projects there were in the past repeatedly, but usually the projects failed because of the huge financial requirement or to the difficult geographical conditions. Now, Nicaragua will try with Chinese help about designing an alternative route.
This also has political reasons. Panama is one of the few left not ruled Latin American countries. The USA wake up today with Argus eyes the fact that nothing jeopardizes the channel or in jeopardy. Nicaragua wants to open a second waterway that is intended to break the American hegemony in the region. Russia, China and many Latin American leftist governments would rather pay the fees for a passage much to her a politically related government as Nicaragua. They would therefore strategically from the Panama Canal independently.
How realistic are the Nicaraguan plans, the future will tell. First of all, the Panama Canal will expand its supremacy after the completion of finishing works – as a 100-year water artery of the world
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