Panama Canal key figures
The new Panama Canal is one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken on our planet, both in terms of its technical complexity and its future impact on intercontinental trade
Panama Canal's new look
Panama Canal's new look
Third Set of Locks Project - Details
- Dredging: 7.1 million m³
- Excavations: 74 million m³
- Backfills: 18 million m³
- Concrete: 5 million m³
- Cement: 1.6 million tons
- Concrete steel: 290,000 tons
- Steel used for the sluice gates and for the valves: 71,000 tons
- Buildings (96 units): 40,000 m²
- Sluice gates: 16 built in Italy, 4,000 tons of steel, width 10 m, length 58 m, height 23-33 m
The New Panama Canal - Highlights
The news Panama Canal: a global gateway that changed maritime trade
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storey buildings
The concrete used for the Third Set of Locks project is the same as the quantity used for 450 x 20 storey buildings
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Eiffel Towers
With the steel used to reinforce the concrete of the Third Set of Locks, one could build 25 Eiffel Towers
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km of canal's length
The canal's length measures, with the ocean stretch and including lake Gatun, 10 km
Sustainability: Water Saving
The consortium solved the problem of the environmental impact and high water consumption thanks to a system called Water Saving Basins: it reduces the dispersion of water in the ocean, with 60% water saving. For the rainforest and its inhabitants, protective measures were taken during the project: hundreds of species typical of the tropical habitat were rescued in the process.