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Panama Canal expansion project – description third set of locks project

Panama Canal expansion project – description third set of locks project
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014, published in , pp. 783-790
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814066889
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The construction of the third set of lock sets is part of the expansion program of the Panama Canal. Aim of the program is to allow longer and higher loaded vessels to transit the existing canal.<...
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Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014
Published in:
Page(s): 783-790 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 783-790
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2014
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814066889
Abstract:

The construction of the third set of lock sets is part of the expansion program of the Panama Canal. Aim of the program is to allow longer and higher loaded vessels to transit the existing canal.

The main components of the expansion program are:

  • Project of the third set of locks, the most important part of the program and topic of the present paper. Two lock complexes of three levels with water saving basins are built at each ocean side – one at Atlantic and the other one at Pacific side.

  • Excavation of access canals

  • Widening and deepening of access canals and elevation of Gatun Lake water level
Keywords:
Expansion program Panama Canal GUPC lock complexes Gatun Lake vessels

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