Miles, million tons are the measurements are repeated again and again in describing the new Panama Canal expansion project which opens this Sunday.
In particular, two new lock complexes, which are hydraulic works that allow balancing the uneven concentrated in waterways, raising or lowering vessels found in them were built.
with this expansion, a third lane of traffic will be created.
this reform in the engineering work already completed its first centenary in 2014 will double the capacity of the waterway channel.
that is, the ships that until now could only carry 5,000 containers, from this reform will to move between 13,000 and 14,000 .
And it it is estimated that this improvement will have a direct impact on the economy and international seaborne trade.
But what other figures describe the Panama canal expansion project? BBC World gathered some of them.
6.1 km
It has long the new access channel from the Pacific Ocean to the new gates.
150 million cubic meters
They are those that were excavated during the execution of enlargement.
2
locks complexes will be built in the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Panama Canal. This is creating a third lane for larger ships. Each lock complex will have three steps or cameras.
427 meters
is the length of each lock, with 55 meters wide and 18.3 meters deep.
16
The number of new rolling gates to be placed in the new locks.
30 meters
This is the average height of each gate.
3,200 tons
This is the average weight of each of the gates.
4,400,000
are cubic meters of concrete used for the Canal expansion of Panama.
192,000 tonnes
steel were used to build the third set of locks.
12 million tons
From rock basalt were used for the construction program of the Third Set of Locks.
40,000
the number of people who worked on the project.
US $ 5,250 million
It is what it cost expansion program in its entirety.
9 years (almost)
This is what delayed in its construction, which began on September 3, 2007.
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