Expansion work at the Panama Canal has now reached 77% according to the Canal Authority, and another milestone was reached in July with the transfer of the first gates to the new locks complex on the Atlantic side.
Panama Canal Authority administrator Jorge Quijano said: “This is a very important operation because it involved the first movement of the gates from the special dock where they were unloaded to the lower chamber of the new locks.”
The 3,000-tonne steel structures were moved to the dry lock chambers using a purpose-built pavement ramp.
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