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Panama Canal Contractor Resumes Work on New Locks
The consortium building the new locks at the Panama Canal resumed work on the project on Thursday after a two-week suspension in a dispute over $1.6 billion in cost overruns. The [...]
Panama Canal Settlement Leaves Technical Problems Unresolved
The settlement of the dispute over cost overruns between the Panama Canal Authority and the engineering consortium building its new set of larger locks leaves unanswered the questions of when the [...]
Panama Canal Expansion Works Stopped
Panama Canal expansion works was suspended today following a breakdown in talks between the canal authority and the construction consortium to resolve a bitter dispute over more than $1 billion in [...]
Panama Canal Expansion Completed Before 2016, It’s Possible?
Panama Canal expansion, may not meet its deadline, which is scheduled by December 2015, says a new American Farm Bureau Focus on Agriculture feature. Writer Stewart Truelsen for AFBF says almost [...]
Panama Canal Expansion Designed by Colorado Company
"We made it wider, we made it longer, we made it deeper," said Alan Krause, Chairman and CEO of MWH Global, based in Broomfield. The company is the lead designer on [...]
Panama Canal, 1903-1914
USA President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply [...]