Panama reveals canal’s inauguration date

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that the expanded canal will be officially inaugurated on June 26, 2016.

The date of the official inauguration of the expanded waterway, which was initially set to be finished by the end of 2014, was revealed during a ceremony for ACP’s inauguration of a scale model manoeuvring training facility.

“We have had some problems with the contractors and also some problems with seepage – all of that has been resolved,” Jose Ramon Arango, senior international trade specialist at ACP, reportedly said at a conference earlier this week.