THE Panama Canal Expansion has completed the transfer of
all gates belonging to the new locks on the Pacific side, thus completing
delivery of the last eighth unit.
The canal expansion is 82 per cent complete, involving of
the construction of a third lane, allowing bigger ships, which will double the
canal's capacity.
Transits began on October 22 to move all eight gates
through the waterway aboard a barge from the Atlantic temporary dock to the
Pacific, assisted by tugs.
This last gate is 31.9 metres high, 57 metres long and
eight metres wide, weighing 4,200 tons of the heaviest of the lock gates.
"The new locks will have 16 rolling gates, eight in
the Pacific and eight in the Atlantic. With this last transit, all gates will
be in the new locks ready for installation during the next couple of
months," said the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) statement.
Since August 2013, the gates have been arriving in
staggered shipments from Italy on a postpanamax vessel to a temporary dock in
the Atlantic side. The last shipment arrived in November.
Source : SN-TR.
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