tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307719242024-03-14T01:16:32.453-07:00Save the Cruces Trail and Panama Canal Watershed<b>Save the Cruces Trail and Panama Canal Watershed, salvar el Camino de Cruces y cuenca del Canal de Panama. Protect Gatún Lake from saltwater intrusion, pollution and environmental catastrophe through use of safer, more efficient lock configuration, which does not create unnecessary risks to the Panama Canal system unlike the selected one for the current expansion plan, does not require building on top of active fault lines, and expose marine creatures in both oceans to extinction.</b>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-4026036772456772832021-08-11T13:01:00.001-07:002021-08-11T13:01:11.283-07:00Is wind power the future of freight shipping?<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgceI3Gx89k" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-39092638152777381452021-03-29T12:49:00.002-07:002021-03-29T12:49:20.820-07:00The giant ship stuck in the Suez Canal has been freed. 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margin: 0.1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"><section class="articlebody " data-id="60" data-m="{"i":60,"p":59,"n":"articlebody","y":6,"o":1}" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: max-height 1s ease-in 0s; width: 624px;"><img elementtiming="TTVR.ArticleContent" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The giant cargo ship that got stuck in the <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Suez Canal</a> was partially freed on Monday, potentially setting up a return to moving traffic in one of the world’s busiest waterways, <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> reports.</p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="Associated Press" data-caption="In this photo released by Suez Canal Authority, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, Egypt, Monday, March 29, 2021. " data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":60,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="a large ship in a body of water: In this photo released by Suez Canal Authority, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, Egypt, Monday, March 29, 2021. " class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"60","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f5u3x.img?h=600&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"47","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f5u3x.img?h=469&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"47","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f5u3x.img?h=469&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f5u3x.img?h=469&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 47rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 62rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© Associated Press</span> In this photo released by Suez Canal Authority, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, Egypt, Monday, March 29, 2021.</span></span><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">What about the Suez Canal?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Late last week, a large container ship turned sideways and got stuck in the <a data-id="65" data-m="{"i":65,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" href="https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2021/3/24/22348152/egypt-suez-canal-whats-happening" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Suez Canal</a>, blocking traffic for all the ships behind it, as I wrote for the <a data-id="66" data-m="{"i":66,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":6}" href="https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2021/3/24/22348152/egypt-suez-canal-whats-happening" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Deseret News.</a></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem 2rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">A sandstorm and high winds pushed the ship off course, which led to it being wedged in the canal, <a data-id="67" data-m="{"i":67,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":7}" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/middleeast/suez-canal-container-ship-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CNN</a> reports.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Specialist teams were brought in to move the ship, according to <a data-id="68" data-m="{"i":68,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":8}" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-evergreen/specialist-salvage-teams-join-efforts-to-refloat-suez-canal-ship-idUSKBN2BH1T2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Reuters</a>.</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">How did the Suez Canal ship get freed?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Salvage teams worked all of last week and over the weekend — for five days and five nights straight — to get the stuck ship back afloat on the water, according to <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="69" data-m="{"i":69,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":9}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times.</a></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem 2rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Per <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="70" data-m="{"i":70,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":10}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, it was the moon and the tides that made the biggest difference. Officials said water levels ballooned overnight, which — thanks to the digging by the salvage teams — allowed the boat to hit the water again and begin to float.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Officials cautioned that there’s still a complicated process underway to get the ship moving again. But for now, they have high confidence that traffic will resume in the canal, <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="71" data-m="{"i":71,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":11}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> reports.</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Reactions to the Suez Canal update</h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem 2rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="72" data-m="{"i":72,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":12}" href="https://twitter.com/alsisiofficial/status/1376461324251725829?s=21" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt</a> said: “Egyptians have succeeded today in ending the crisis of the stuck ship in the Suez Canal despite the great complexities surrounding this situation in every aspect.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-hl="viglink" data-id="73" data-m="{"i":73,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":13}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Peter Berdowski,</a> the chief executive of Royal Boskalis Westminster, told <a data-hl="viglink" data-id="74" data-m="{"i":74,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":14}" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/29/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>: “The ship is like a giant whale that we have to slide off the beach, back in the water. ... “We shouldn’t start cheering just yet.”</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">What’s next for the stuck ship?</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Officials still have to get the ship moved. That’s a big deal.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem 2rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">After that, authorities are investigating the cause for the ship becoming wedged in the canal. Officials suggested that one reason the ship ran aground was because of a sandstorm and high winds. Some Egyptian officials suggested human error may be to blame, according to the <a data-id="75" data-m="{"i":75,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":15}" href="https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/massive-ship-ever-given-re-floated-in-suez-canal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">New York Post.</a></li></ul></section></section></article></main></div></div>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-67343121029579853452021-03-29T06:06:00.002-07:002021-03-29T06:15:00.543-07:00Cargo ship the Ever Given freed from the Suez Canal<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xUwWcoIlHwM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUwWcoIlHwM">(21) Cargo ship the Ever Given freed from the Suez Canal - YouTube</a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Cargo ship the Ever Given freed from the Suez Canal</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The massive cargo ship the Ever Given has been dislodged from the Suez Canal after being wedged for close to a week.
The 400-metre-long cargo ship, one of the largest in operation in the world, was successfully re-floated a short time ago, according to shipping monitors.
The Suez Canal is one of the world’s most strategically important shipping routes and one of the highest traffic routes.
The blockade of the canal had major trade ramifications including a dip in the oil price, but after 12 tugboats and land-clearing crews worked day and night to dislodge the ship, the Ever Given is expected to resume its journey.</span></p>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-2367568611286014112021-03-29T03:43:00.000-07:002021-03-29T03:43:41.129-07:00Ever Given un-wedged from resting spot in Suez Canal<p> </p><div data-id="46" data-m="{"i":46,"n":"precontent","y":6}" data-region="precontent" id="precontent" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 8rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.7rem;"><header class="collection-headline-flex" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 94.8rem; padding: 1rem 0px; width: 94.8rem;"><h1 elementtiming="TTVR.ViewsContentHeader" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Though the bow (front) of the ship remains stuck.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The container ship began to float successfully after responding to the pulling maneuvers," said Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"></p><span class="storyimage smallfullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="Provided by AccuWeather" data-caption="" data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":62,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="chart" class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"38","h":"40","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f4KCl.img?h=400&w=380&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f4KCl.img?h=400&w=380&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 40rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 38rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© Provided by AccuWeather</span></span></span><table style="border-spacing: 0px; clear: left; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; width: 624px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="background: rgb(232, 232, 232); box-sizing: border-box; height: 4rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.8rem 0px 1.2rem;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1rem;">The tracking map on <a class="vglnk" data-hl="viglink" href="http://vesslefinder.com/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vesslefinder</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">com</span></a> from late Monday morning, local time, shows the stern of the Ever Given away from the west bank of the Suez Canal. The bow of the ship is still shown pointed and stuck in the east bank of the canal.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Plans are now in place to try to free the bow (front) of the ship later in the day on Monday, using the rising water with the next high tide to help.</p><div data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":62,"n":"TripleliftModule","y":8,"o":2}" data-nativead-tracking="{"id": "triplelift", "sdk": "widget", "w": "300", "h": "250"}" id="triplelift" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Satellite images from last week showed the 1,312-foot-long ship with its bow wedged into the eastern bank at a diagonal across the roughly 656-foot-wide Suez Canal, choking off a crucial maritime trade route in new satellite images released Friday by Maxar Images. The Ever Given, which is operated by the Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., towered over several tug boats that lined its port side.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"It's a complex technical operation" that will require several attempts to free the vessel, Rabei said in a statement late last week about their efforts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">About 12% of world trade operates through the canal, though concerns are growing over the impact the maritime traffic jam could have on the cost of goods.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="66" data-m="{"i":66,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" href="https://downloads.accuweather.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APP</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Workers are racing against the clock to fully free the ship in an endeavor that is costing the world economy an estimated <a data-id="67" data-m="{"i":67,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" href="https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1136229/Suez-Canal-remains-blocked-despite-efforts-to-refloat-grounded-Ever-Given" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">$400 million in delayed goods</a> for every hour the waterway remains blocked, according to shipping data and news company Lloyd's List. The London-based shipping news journal estimated that the value of cargo goods passing through the canal every day to be roughly around $9.7 billion -- westbound traffic valuing $5.1 billion daily and eastbound traffic valuing $4.5 billion daily.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The vessel has been stuck since Tuesday, March 23, on its way from China to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands when it <a data-id="68" data-m="{"i":68,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":6}" href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/massive-ship-runs-aground-amid-extreme-weather-blocks-suez-canal/920737" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reportedly ran aground amid a severe dust storm</a> that caused high winds and poor visibility in the canal. Capt. Nick Sloane, a maritime salvage expert, told the AP that the job could take up to a week.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The job of dislodging the ship had fallen to <a data-id="69" data-m="{"i":69,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":7}" href="https://www.smit.com/services/salvage.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">SMIT Salvage BV</a>, one of the largest salvage companies in the world that provides marine emergency response, wreck removal operations and environmental care services.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">AccuWeather Meteorologist John Gresiak said dry and mostly clear weather could be expected in the area over into Tuesday as efforts to free the Ever Given continue.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Keep checking back on <a data-id="70" data-m="{"i":70,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":8}" href="https://www.accuweather.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AccuWeather.com</a> and stay tuned to the <a data-id="71" data-m="{"i":71,"p":62,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":9}" href="https://getaccuweather.tv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier, Spectrum, FuboTV, Philo, and Verizon Fios</a>.</p></section></section></article></main></div></div>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-28214513227997543872021-03-29T03:38:00.000-07:002021-03-29T03:38:16.581-07:00What it's really like steering the world's biggest ships<p> </p><header class="collection-headline-flex" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 94.8rem; padding: 1rem 0px; width: 94.8rem;"><h1 elementtiming="TTVR.ViewsContentHeader" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Bold", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.6rem; line-height: 4.8rem; margin: 0px 32.4rem 0px 0px; padding: 0.4rem 0px 0px;">What it's really like steering the world's biggest ships</h1></header><section class="Modelinfo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 4.6rem; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 94.8rem;"><div class="authorinfo-flexar" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; max-width: 49rem; min-width: 29rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.3rem; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="authortime-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.7rem; margin: 0px 1.2rem 0px 0px; max-height: 4rem; max-width: 67.5rem; min-width: 35rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><div class="authorname-txt" data-id="47" data-m="{"i":47,"p":43,"n":"authorName","t":"name","o":4}" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/person" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-family: "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="truncate" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Story by Francesca Street, CNN. Graphic by Sarah-Grace Mankarious and Marco Chacón, CNN</span> <span class="hdr-dot" style="background-color: #999999; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 0.15rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.3rem; padding: 0px; width: 0.15rem;"></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2 hrs ago</span></div></div></div></section><section class="Modelinfo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 4.6rem; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 94.8rem;"><div class="authorinfo-flexar" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; max-width: 49rem; min-width: 29rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.3rem; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="authortime-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.7rem; margin: 0px 1.2rem 0px 0px; max-height: 4rem; max-width: 67.5rem; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 624px;"><section class="flexarticle" data-id="58" data-m="{"i":58,"p":57,"n":"flexarticle","y":6,"o":1}" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"><section class="articlebody " data-id="59" data-m="{"i":59,"p":58,"n":"articlebody","y":6,"o":1}" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px; max-height: inherit; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: max-height 1s ease-in 0s; width: 624px;"><img elementtiming="TTVR.ArticleContent" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute;" /><span style="font-size: 2rem;">The emergency stop is a familiar maneuver for most motorists. A hazard presents itself in front of the moving vehicle, the driver hits the brakes and grips the steering wheel, the car screeches to a halt, hopefully under full control.</span><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="Soeren Stache/picture alliance/Getty Image" data-caption="The cruise ship Norwegian Star navigates the Suez Canal near Port Said, Egypt, 09 March 2017. The canal joins the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, providing a direct route from Europe to Asia. Dividing Egypt proper from the Sinai peninsula, it is also an artificial border between Asia and Africa. The canal is currently being widened. Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB | usage worldwide (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images)" data-id="60" data-m="{"i":60,"p":59,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="a large ship in a body of water: The cruise ship Norwegian Star navigates the Suez Canal near Port Said, Egypt, 09 March 2017. The canal joins the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, providing a direct route from Europe to Asia. Dividing Egypt proper from the Sinai peninsula, it is also an artificial border between Asia and Africa. The canal is currently being widened. Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB | usage worldwide (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images)" class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"45","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2zwj.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2zwj.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2zwj.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2zwj.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 35rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 62rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© Soeren Stache/picture alliance/Getty Image</span> The cruise ship Norwegian Star navigates the Suez Canal near Port Said, Egypt, 09 March 2017. The canal joins the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, providing a direct route from Europe to Asia. Dividing Egypt proper from the Sinai peninsula, it is also an artificial border between Asia and Africa. The canal is currently being widened. Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB | usage worldwide (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images)</span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">But what happens when the vehicle you're driving is the size of a small city and doesn't actually come equipped with brakes?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">That's the scenario facing those at the helms of the hundreds of gigantic container and cruise ships in our seas and waterways.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The maneuverability of these titans of the oceans hit the headlines this week when a container ship as long as the Empire State Building is tall became stuck in the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important waterways.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The Ever Given rammed into the side of the waterway on Tuesday when, <a data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" href="https://cnn.com/2021/03/25/middleeast/suez-canal-ship-blockage-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to the Suez Canal Authority</a>, it was engulfed by 40-knot winds and low visibility caused by a sandstorm. Amid the struggle to push the ship back on course, scores of vessels have been stuck in a marine traffic snarl up.</p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images" data-caption="This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversaryx of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was opened to navigation in 1869 and was expanded in 2015 to accommodate larger ships. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)" data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":59,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":2}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="a large ship in a body of water: This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversaryx of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was opened to navigation in 1869 and was expanded in 2015 to accommodate larger ships. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)" class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"45","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2wYo.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2wYo.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2wYo.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2wYo.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 35rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 62rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images</span> This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversaryx of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was opened to navigation in 1869 and was expanded in 2015 to accommodate larger ships. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)</span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Given the level of traffic typically seen in the Suez Canal — when there's no pandemic this can be an average of 106 towering container vessels and hulking cruise ships each day — it's perhaps surprising that such an incident doesn't happen more often.</p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images" data-caption="A container ship navigating the Suez Canal." data-id="62" data-m="{"i":62,"p":59,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":3}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="a boat sitting next to a body of water: A container ship navigating the Suez Canal." class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"45","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2BVR.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2BVR.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"35","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2BVR.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1f2BVR.img?h=352&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 35rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 62rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images</span> A container ship navigating the Suez Canal.</span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">So what is it really like to steer the world's biggest ships through the Suez and beyond? <a data-id="65" data-m="{"i":65,"p":59,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":6}" href="https://cnn.com/travel" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CNN Travel</a> spoke to expert mariners to learn more.</p><div class="ec-module section-layout emsinline floatleft" data-height="350px" data-nativead-tracking="{"id": "", "sdk": "widget", "w": "300", "h": "250"}" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto;"><iframe data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":59,"n":"externalcontent","t":"https://products.gobankingrates.com/r/8419832115a196968580e15ce19723e6","o":4}" data-url="https://products.gobankingrates.com/r/8419832115a196968580e15ce19723e6" scrolling="no" src="https://products.gobankingrates.com/r/8419832115a196968580e15ce19723e6" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 350px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"></iframe></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">A container ship captain's perspective</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Captain Yash Gupta helms container vessels that cross the world's oceans. He's been working at sea for almost 20 years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Gupta calls seafaring life "unpredictable, but very interesting."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"If you are at sea under normal operations it feels quite relaxed," he tells CNN Travel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">But, he adds, you never know what's going to happen next.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"One day, you see the water is just calm and the ship is rock steady. You wake up in the morning and you see it's a storm coming in and waves of maybe five meters, six meters, eight meters. You never know."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The key, he says, is to plan. On board, Gupta heads up around 20 to 25 people at any given time, with crew contracts ranging from four to nine months.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Together with his navigation team, Gupta carefully maps out the route before the voyage begins, factoring in tidal and weather conditions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Wind is a particularly important consideration for container ships because the stacked containers lends them a dizzying height.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"So you can imagine it's just like a solid wall, which is faced against the wind," says Gupta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">He says the wind effect is uncontrollable because the ship is in water. It's not possible to hit the brakes in the same way you'd stop a moving car.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">And just how quickly can you bring a container ship to a stop?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">To answer this question, Gupta points to the extremely high demand for shipping cargo.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Look around yourself, wherever you are sitting -- everything you see, or you touch, has been on a ship in its life."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">He says this high demand means container ships are built to accommodate speeding up and slowing down in as short amount of time as possible, to avoid delays.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">But the scale of the vessels means the numbers still seem big.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">A container ship going from top speed to stop takes about 1.8 miles and between 14 to 16 minutes, says Gupta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Steering mechanisms vary from ship to ship, with some steered by dials, buttons and levers, but steering wheels are still common -- just not the giant wooden ones that once maneuvered sailing ships.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"It's a steering wheel with a lot of electronics involved," explains Gupta. "When the wheel is turned it gives electronic signals to the rudder which turns as per the command given."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">When navigating the Suez, ships travel in convoy and must sail at more or less the same speed as the vessel they're following for the entirety of the roughly 12 to 16 hours it could take to transit the canal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"You can't just start increasing your speed. Otherwise, the distance between the two vessels will become less and less and less, and then you will ultimately go and collide," says Gupta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Whether a vessel approaches the Suez Canal from the north or south entryway, it also can't proceed until at least one pilot representing the Suez Canal Authority comes on board.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"They have expertise in transiting through the Suez Canal," explains Gupta. "This pilot has to be on board the vessel and he navigates the vessel. He basically assists the captain."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">However, the overall responsibility for safely transiting the vessel still lies with the captain, says Gupta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Crucially, the Suez pilots are experts in the area's topography. They know the tides, they know the water depth, they're familiar with the width of the canal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Once ships are transiting the canal, they generally cannot overtake one another, although in some spots the canal is wider, and vessels are permitted to overtake.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Pilots will communicate with one another via radio communication to discuss these maneuvers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The pilot says to the other vessel: 'Okay, I'm going to overtake you, you give me some room, you go on one side or you want to increase the speed, decrease the speed,'" explains Gupta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Also involved in proceedings are what Gupta calls the Suez Canal's equivalent of air traffic control, a subsidiary of the Suez Canal Authority that monitors vessel traffic.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"They have a bigger radar and a bigger navigation equipment. They are monitoring the movement of all the ships as a whole and they coordinate the activities."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Tug boats are currently assisting the Ever Given. Gupta says these small vessels are often used to help large ships navigate the Suez.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"There are some areas in the canal which are narrower than the rest," he says. "Tugs are usually used as 'escorts' in such areas for big ships."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The tug boats travel in tandem with the larger ship and remain available to help should any issues arise.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Cruise ship perspective</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Cruise ships transiting the Suez Canal or other narrow waterways experience many of the same challenges as container ships.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">For one, they're also extremely tall.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The higher the vessel, the more windage, the more susceptible you are to the effects of the wind, so that all that has to be taken into consideration," says Captain David Bathgate, who heads up ships for Seabourn Cruise Line, a luxury cruise line owned by Carnival.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Bathgate has decades of seafaring experience under his belt, having worked on general cargo vessels, bulk carriers, container ships and oil tankers over his career.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">He's held the title of captain for the past two decades.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Being in charge of the vessel is a hugely rewarding and satisfying experience," Bathgate tells CNN Travel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Like Gupta, he works with his on board team to create a voyage plan.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Each plan, says Bathgate, encompasses four steps: appraisal, planning, execution, and monitoring.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Appraisal, he explains, involves ensuring the team has the right charts, navigational warnings and up-to-date meteorological conditions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Then you've got the planning, constructing the route itself through the various sections," he explains. "Then you've got the execution, actually doing the job, taking the vessel there."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Finally, monitoring involves keeping tabs on the vessel en route and making sure the ship is on track, and taking any corrective actions if needed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Bathgate says each voyage plan will be checked by at least four people, including senior navigator officers and an environmental officer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Before navigating a narrow passage, such as the Suez, Bathgate's team will make sure they are conscious of the waterway's depth, width and what he calls, "any additional navigational hazards within."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">These could include shallow areas, bends, corners or banks.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">While those topographical conditions aren't likely to change, unanticipated weather can have an unexpected effect.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"The weather is one of the perhaps one of the most important aspects of these passages in constrained waters, in terms of wind speed, and visibility," says Bathgate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"In the Suez, for example, one of the key hazards would be sandstorms, so very quickly and without warning, very strong winds can creep up with significant quantity of sand and reducing visibility."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Bathgate also notes how ships transit the canal in a numbered convoy, so when they approach the canal, they anchor and await confirmation of their time slot.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Invariably cruise ships, we are generally given the number one in the convoy and we're quite often followed by the large container ships which are on a critical timeline," he says.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Container ship captain Gupta explains that cruise ships usually get priority because of their numbers of passengers and because they are working within tight timeframes. This is the case not just in the Suez, but in other waterways, he says.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Usually two or three Suez pilots will board a cruise ship to help with transit, and Bathgate notes sometimes pilots may switch halfway through.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">And so just how easily can a cruise ship slow down or speed up? The numbers are pretty similar to a container vessel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"From full speed, just putting the engines to stop and letting the ship coast as it were, it would take 15 minutes, and 1.75 miles, for us to stop," says Bathgate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"However, if we wanted to do a crash stop by putting the engines full astern, then it would take us just under five minutes, and the distance we would travel is only three quarters of a mile. So for the size of vessel, that's quite impressive figures."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Passenger perspective</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">While cruise captains are hard at work ensuring smooth passage through the Suez, passengers enjoy watching the convoy from their boardroom balconies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Pam Broadhead transited the Suez Canal in November 2019, on Marella Discovery, an 11-deck TUI cruise ship. The vessel, traveling from Malaga in Spain to Dubai, entered from the north entryway and traveled south.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Our ship was the first ship to sail through so it was an early alarm to be on deck to see the sunrise," she tells CNN Travel, recalling passengers drinking coffee and eating croissants as they watched the sun appear on the horizon.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"After seeing the sunrise we sat on our balcony with coffees watching as the boats (all of them container ships) passed by us in a constant convoy. Most fully laden with containers."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Occasionally, the passengers spotted local fishing boats, dwarfed by the Marella Discovery and most other ships in the convoy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Think they quite enjoyed waving to all of us and us them," Broadhead says.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Broadhead and her husband had hoped for a good view of the Mubarak Peace Bridge -- a road bridge that crosses the canal, and links Asia and Africa -- but early morning fog impacted the range of vision from the ship, which meant this wasn't possible.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"But just going underneath it felt quite moving. I think being of a generation that is aware of the Suez crisis possibly made it more of a moment," she says.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Misty conditions impacted a significant section of the passage, Broadhead recalls.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"At one point, visibility was barely a few meters into a bank of white cloud, making it impossible to see the canal edges or even the water or other ships but we continued silently cruising through with all the other ships following," she says.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Thankfully, the fog dissipated around the halfway point and there was plenty to see from there on."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">When the ship reached the southern exit, it was held for a while before leaving the canal. Broadhead and her fellow passengers were able to watch the canal voyage come to a close as the sun set over the Gulf of Suez.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/what-its-really-like-steering-the-worlds-biggest-ships/ar-BB1f2b3v?ocid=msedgdhp">What it's really like steering the world's biggest ships (msn.com)</a></p></section></section></article>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-53896456404738989352021-03-27T03:39:00.001-07:002021-03-27T03:39:13.970-07:00Plain sailing for meme-makers: Jokes flood in as ‘Ever Given’ re-float in Suez Canal FAILS and more tugboats called in<p> </p><p><br /></p><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 2.6em; line-height: 1.19em; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;">Plain sailing for meme-makers: Jokes flood in as ‘Ever Given’ re-float in Suez Canal FAILS and more tugboats called in</h1><div class="article__date" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 332.297px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.230769em; padding: 0px; white-space: nowrap;">26 Mar, 2021 20:11 <span class="update_date_visible" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">/ Updated 14 hours ago</span></span></div><div class="article__short-url" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 0px 2.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom; width: 332.297px;"><div class="short-url" style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="short-url__link" href="https://on.rt.com/b4ps" style="background: 0px 0px; border-bottom: 0.0769231em dashed rgb(4, 79, 170); color: #044faa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Get short URL</a></div></div><div class="article__cover" style="background-color: white; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><div class="media " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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style="background-color: white; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Memes based on the awkward situation in which the ‘Ever Given’ cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal finds itself continue to flood the internet, as efforts to re-float the vessel fail and more tugboats are called in to help.</div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">The Panama-flagged container ship became lodged sideways in the canal – one of the world's busiest shipping lanes – on Tuesday, after it veered off course in high winds.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">However, efforts to re-float the vessel on Friday were <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“not successful,”</em> and two tugs will now arrive to assist on Sunday, Bernhard Schulte 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Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro likened the snail’s pace of the stranded behemoth to that of US President Joe Biden’s solo press conference on Thursday – his first since entering the White House.</p><div class="rtcode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1375442075295055880" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1375442075295055880&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F519328-ever-given-memes-refloat-fails%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 496px; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">Given the Suez Canal’s Middle East location, other Twitter users suggested the Biden administration might be preparing <a href="https://twitter.com/blockstrain/status/1375082874362327040" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; color: #044faa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">drone strikes</a> to free the trapped ship.</p><div class="rtcode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1375370599275503620" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1375370599275503620&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F519328-ever-given-memes-refloat-fails%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 512px; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">Podcaster Gary Brecher, known for the ‘War Nerd’, said it was<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “amazing”</em> that Egypt’s Sinai insurgents had never conceived of blocking the canal to aid their attacks against the country’s security forces.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“10 billion dollars a day ... That pilot will have the ultimate student debt anecdote,”</em> he added.</p><div class="rtcode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1375461140013125632" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-4" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-4&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1375461140013125632&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F519328-ever-given-memes-refloat-fails%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 601px; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">More mainstream offerings riffed on the alleged proliferation of fake news on Facebook, the Covid-19 pandemic, and even diversity training workshops.</p><div class="rtcode" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1374833597945876486" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-5" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-5&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1374833597945876486&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F519328-ever-given-memes-refloat-fails%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 495px; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;">However the joke could soon be on the memers, because a potential global toilet-paper shortage looms amid the shipping chaos, according to Brazilian wood-pulp company Suzano SA. 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There were also eight ships carrying livestock and a water tanker.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Countries rely on the Suez Canal, a chokepoint for international trade, to get speedy shipments of the commodities that power everyday life, like propane to heat houses and crops that feed animals and humans. A lengthy delay could further stretch supply chains that have already been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While the impacts to various markets aren’t yet clear, considerable delays could be seen in the loading schedule at Qatargas in early April if the Suez Canal congestion persists, according to London-based research firm Kpler. Oil tankers in the queue are carrying about 8.8 million barrels of oil, according to Kpler.</span></p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="Bloomberg" data-caption="Suez Canal Blockage Impacts Multiple Industries" data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":63,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="chart: Suez Canal Blockage Impacts Multiple Industries" class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"49","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eVqdz.img?h=491&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"38","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eVqdz.img?h=384&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"38","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eVqdz.img?h=384&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eVqdz.img?h=491&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="652764634" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 2.4rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="NO" height="350" id="_mN_main_1616556905515480842" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="NO" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 350px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="TOPICS FOR YOU" width="300"></iframe></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The hull of Ever Given, one of the biggest container ships in operation, became wedged lengthways across the canal early Tuesday in Egypt, causing a pileup of at least 100 vessels seeking to transit between the Red Sea and Mediterranean, according to ship brokers and mapping data compiled by Bloomberg.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Ever Given “was grounded accidentally after deviating from its course due to suspected sudden strong wind,” Taiwan-based Evergreen Line, the time charterer of the vessel, said in an emailed response to questions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Evergreen has urged the vessel’s owners to work with “relevant authorities including the canal management bureau to help the ship get out of trouble as soon as possible,” according to an emailed statement from the firm. Japan’s Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., among those listed as the ship’s owner, declined to comment.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“The salvage operation with tugs is under way, and hopefully the vessel will be freed soon, but it could last days” as checks are made on the damage to the ship, said Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa & Co.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Ever Given was en route from China to Rotterdam. The crew are safe and accounted for, and there have been no reports of injuries or pollution, according to the ship’s manager Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement. Ship tracking data showed the vessel was still in the same position as of about 2 a.m. Wednesday in Cairo. A spokesperson for the Suez Canal Authority couldn’t be reached for comment outside usual office hours.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Segoe UI Semibold", "Segoe WP Semibold", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Pile Up</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The blockage has led to a big pileup in other ships in the area. About 42 vessels either in the northbound convoy or arriving to transit the canal northbound are now waiting for the grounded vessel to be re-floated, Leth Agencies, one of the top providers of Suez Canal crossing services, said in a notice to clients. About 64 vessels traveling southbound were also affected. Oil prices briefly rose on news of the disruption before pulling back.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">At 400 meters in length, the vessel that was built in Japan about three years ago is longer than the Eiffel Tower laid on its side. Shipping companies have been turning to mega-sized vessels to help improve economies of scale, while some key routes -- including the Suez Canal -- being widened and deepened over the years to accommodate them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><a data-id="63" data-m="{"i":63,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":3}" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/egypt-opens-8-billion-new-suez-canal-boosting-el-sisi" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Read more: Egypt Opens $8 Billion ‘New Suez Canal’ in Boost to El-Sisi</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">“It could also take some time to move the vessel given that it would be loaded almost full,” said Park Moo-Hyun, an analyst at Hana Financial Investment Co. in Seoul. “This is going to delay a lot of the goods on one of the world’s busiest trade lanes.”</p><span class="storyimage fullwidth inlineimage" data-aop="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span class="image" data-attrib="via Bloomberg" data-caption="" data-id="61" data-m="{"i":61,"p":60,"n":"openModal","t":"articleImages","o":1}" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="map" class="loaded" data-src="{"default":{"load":"default","w":"79","h":"83","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eTHp4.img?h=833&w=792&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"66","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eTHp4.img?h=657&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"66","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eTHp4.img?h=657&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}}" src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1eTHp4.img?h=833&w=792&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 83rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 79rem;" /></span><span class="caption truncate" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.384; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© via Bloomberg</span></span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The 193-kilometer-long (120 miles) Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, is among the most trafficked waterways in the world, utilized by oil tankers shipping crude from the Middle East to Europe and North America. About 12% of global trade, almost 10% of seaborne oil trade and 8% of global LNG passes through the canal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The canal has been the site of occasional groundings that have halted shipping. Tugboats managed to get the OOCL Japan unstuck a few hours after it ran aground in October 2017, while the containership Maersk Shams was briefly stuck a year earlier. In one of the most serious delays, the canal was closed for three days in 2004 after an oil tanker, Tropic Brilliance, got lodged. The ship was finally freed after 25,000 tons of oil was pumped out.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Any prolonged disruption would mean ships need to reroute, which would likely drive up freight costs, said Chun Hyungjin, research fellow at Korea Maritime Institute. Ships could bypass it by going around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, but that would add about two extra weeks to the voyage from Asia to Europe, leading to significant extra costs and disrupting all schedules, said Banchero’s Leszczynski.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">The shipping industry has had a tumultuous year since the Covid-19 pandemic began roiling global trade in 2020. As countries closed borders to try keep the virus under control, exports from China surged, leading to a dearth of containers and sending maritime rates soaring. The pandemic also exacerbated <a data-id="64" data-m="{"i":64,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":4}" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-21/fight-between-commodities-giants-and-shippers-leaves-seafarers-stuck" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">labor abuse</a> in the industry, with thousands of seafarers stuck on vessels beyond the expiration of their contracts and past the requirements of globally accepted safety standards.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">(Updates to add analyst comments, background on the Suez Canal.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">For more articles like this, please visit us at <a data-id="65" data-m="{"i":65,"p":60,"n":"partnerLink","y":24,"o":5}" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #126d91; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">©2021 Bloomberg L.P.</p></section></section></article></main></div></div>crucestrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432742127252215098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30771924.post-11037126294554873992016-09-21T10:39:00.002-07:002016-09-21T10:39:29.373-07:00U.S. on Nicaragua Canal: We’ll believe it when we see it<div id="story-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'McClatchy Sans', Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">
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A senior State Department official has serious doubts about the prospects of a 172-mile, inter-oceanic canal across Nicaragua that would compete with the Panama Canal to the south.</div>
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Nicaragua struck a controversial deal in 2013 with a little-known Chinese billionaire to dig the <a href="http://hknd-group.com/upload/pdf/20150105/Nicaragua_Canal_Project_Description_EN.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">massive canal</a>. The government’s deal with Wang Jing’s HKND Group is to build and operate a trans-oceanic canal, two ports and airport among other projects.</div>
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The company broke ground on the estimated $50 billion project in 2014, but there has been no progress since. If completed, the canal would be three times the length of the Panama Canal, and twice as deep.</div>
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Progress has allegedly suffered from China’s economic slowdown and Wang’s reported financial difficulties raising questions among many about whether it would ever be constructed.</div>
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“I’m skeptical,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Juan Gonzalez told members of Congress at a recent Foreign Affairs hearing on the Nicaraguan elections in November. “We have not seen a single shovel being used on the Nicaragua canal. The position will take is ‘we’ll believe it when we see it.’”</div>
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But Gonzalez said the administration is closely monitoring the situation.</div>
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has kept many aspects of the canal deal secret, which has led to speculation that the Chinese government is involved. The government denies this, but <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/wang-jing-3/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Wang Jing</a> is a billionaire telecom tycoon with powerful ties to China’s Communist Party and reputed ties to the People’s Liberation Army.</div>
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Controversy has dogged the project from the start. The deal was rushed through the legislature for approval gave HKND powers to expropriate lands and exempted the company from local tax and commercial regulations, according to the <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R44560.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Congressional Research Service</a>. In April, thousands marched to protest saying the canal would displace rural communities and harm the environment.</div>
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“Scientists also express concern that the route would damage networks of internationally protected nature preserves that include wetlands, coral reefs, rainforests, and coastal areas,” the CRS report found.</div>
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HKND officials said the company is doing preconstruction studies and will begin canal construction in late 2016, according to CRS, but some experts think the project has is over.</div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lo irónico es que los pilotos del canal vienen diciendo que ese diseño no funciona desde la adjudicación de la obra. La ACP nunca le consultó a los pilotos del canal si era funcional el sistema de remolcadores que propuso GUPC. La ACP solo le consultó a los pilotos retirados que trabajan para ellos mismos en el </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Administration building</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> y no los pilotos activos que pilotean los buques por el canal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Los pilotos del Canal han manifestado en reiteradas ocasiones no sentirse seguros al maniobrar con los remolcadores para mantener el buque centrado dentro de las esclusas. Especialmente cuando van a pasar buques de LPG, Gas Natural y petroleros en general, los cuales cuentan con unas altas normas de seguridad contra colisiones.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nos vendieron que GUPC se ganó la licitación porque su precio era mil millones de balboas por debajo del que llegó de segundo lugar. Pero nadie “sospechó” que se tiraron por debajo de los competidores para cobrar más de dos mil millones en reclamos y adendas de sobre costos. Lo peor de todo es que el diseño que incluye los remolcadores no es funcional por varias razones técnicas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leyendo un poco sobre cómo justificaron el uso de los remolcadores, me encontré con un documento escrito por la ACP titulado </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">El Proyecto del tercer juego de esclusas del Canal de Panamá. </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">En este documento justifican que no se contempló el sistema que utiliza actualmente el canal Panamax porque en el canal post-Panamax: “iba a tomar 16 locomotoras con una capacidad de 70 toneladas”. Eso, según concluye el documento, iba a subir demasiado el costo de la construcción de las paredes de las esclusas por la fuerza que iba a ejercer las locomotoras para mantener los buques post-Panamax centrados en el Canal Ampliado.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El diseño de las locomotoras lleva más de cien años funcionando. ¡Más de cien años! Yo no soy ingeniero pero tengo sentido común, si algo funcionó por más de cien años aunque el costo iba a ser más alto, ¿que importa pagar más si realmente va a funcionar? Digamos que el costo de reforzar los muros para que funcionen las locomotoras hubiera sido de dos mil millones. El costo del Canal Ampliado hubiera sido de alrededor de 5.5 mil millones de balboas. Adivinen cuánto vamos a terminar pagándole a GUPC con sus reclamos y sobre costos por un canal que no funciona. </span><br />
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<div class="at-above-post addthis_default_style addthis_toolbox " data-description="A neopanamax containership has suffered a gash to its hull after bumping into the wall of one of the new locks making up the expanded Panama Canal. According to reports the 8,500 teu containership MV Xin Fei Zhou scrapped the side during a transit of the Agua Clara locks on the Atlantic side during a …" data-title="Containership Damaged After Hitting Wall in Panama Canal’s New Locks" data-url="http://gcaptain.com/containership-damaged-in-panama-canals-new-locks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;">
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<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_110153" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 800px;"><img alt="Damage to the MV Xin Fei Zhou. " class="size-large wp-image-110153" height="473" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Xin-Fei-Zhou-.jpg?resize=800%2C600" srcset="http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Xin-Fei-Zhou-.jpg?resize=800%2C600 800w, http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Xin-Fei-Zhou-.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Xin-Fei-Zhou-.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, http://i1.wp.com/gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Xin-Fei-Zhou-.jpg?w=1200 1200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="630" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">Damage to the MV Xin Fei Zhou.</figcaption></figure><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;">
A neopanamax containership has suffered a gash to its hull after bumping into the wall of one of the new locks making up the expanded Panama Canal.</div>
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According to reports the 8,500 teu containership MV <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Xin Fei Zhou</em> scrapped the side during a transit of the Agua Clara locks on the Atlantic side during a northbound transit of the canal.</div>
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The incident marks the first of what many have warned would be a recurring issue with the new locks that poses added risks to the safety of ships and workers. Unlike the existing locks, which use locomotives (aka mules), the new neopanamax locks use a configuration of two tugboats, one fore and aft, to guide ships through.</div>
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An independent study commissioned by the International Transport Workers’ Federation <a href="http://gcaptain.com/itf-raises-concerns-over-safety-of-expanded-panama-canal-locks/" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #469bd1; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">released earlier this year</a> concluded that the safety of maneuverability within the new locks is compromised due to several factors, namely that the dimensions of the new lock chambers are too small for the configuration of the tugboats under various environmental conditions. The conclusions echoed similar concerns that a veteran Panama Canal ship pilot expressed to gCaptain back in July 2014 regarding the design of new locks, particularly with regards to the size of the individual lock chambers, the configuration of the tugs, and the prevailing winds that the region is known for.</div>
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The Panama Canal Authority has dismissed the conclusions of the ITF study as false, saying that the study lacked scientific accuracy and credibility.</div>
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Regarding Thursday’s incident, the Panama Canal Authority says it is investigating and noted that it is the first such incident since the inauguration of the expansion project in June.</div>
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As of Saturday the MV <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Xin Fei Zhou </em>was showing anchored off Colon, Panama, according to AIS data. The ship belongs to China COSCO Shipping.</div>
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A Chinese container ship has hit a wall of the recently-widened Panama Canal, amid concerns that it has less space for manoeuvres and could be unsafe.</div>
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It is the third accident of this kind since the multi-million dollar expansion opened a month ago.</div>
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Workers' groups say the new locks are too small for safe operations now that the canal can take ships three times larger than before.</div>
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The Panama Canal authority says it is investigating the incidents.</div>
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The Xin Fei Zhou, owned by China Shipping Container Lines, suffered a large gash in its hull and is now undergoing repairs.</div>
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The new locks are designed for ships to use tugboats to guide them through the canal.</div>
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In the old canal locomotives (known as "mules") would keep the ships correctly aligned as they passed through.</div>
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A study for the International Transport Workers' Federation released earlier this year concluded that the new lock chambers were too small for the tugboats to be able to manoeuvre properly.</div>
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Work on the expansion began in September 2007 and was originally planned to finish in 2014.</div>
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Following delays caused by construction workers' strikes and disputes over cost overruns, the date for completion was pushed back to April 2016.</div>
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The first voyage through the new expanded canal was on 26 June.</div>
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<span class="summary-text">How a $3.1 Billion Expansion Collided With Reality</span> </div>
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PANAMA CITY — On July 8, 2009, the champagne finally flowed.</div>
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After an intense two-year competition, a consortium led by a Spanish company in severe financial distress learned that its rock-bottom bid of $3.1 billion had won the worldwide competition to build a new set of locks for the historic Panama Canal.</div>
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The unlikely victors toasted their win at La Vitrola, a sleek restaurant in an upscale neighborhood east of downtown Panama City. Within days, executives of the four-nation consortium, Grupo Unidos por el Canal, flew to Europe to begin planning the project.</div>
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This time, there would be no champagne. Disputes quickly erupted over how to divide responsibilities. Some executives appeared not to fully grasp how little money they had to complete a complex project with a tight deadline and a multicultural team whose members did not always see things the same way.</div>
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Internal arguments soon gave way to bigger problems. There would be work stoppages, porous concrete, a risk of earthquakes and at least $3.4 billion in disputed costs: more than the budget for the entire project.</div>
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Seven years later, and nearly two years late, the locks have finally been declared ready to accept the new generation of giant ships that carry much of the world’s cargo but cannot fit in the original canal. To mark the occasion, Panama has invited 70 heads of state to watch on Sunday as a Chinese container ship becomes the first commercial vessel to attempt the passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the larger locks.</div>
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For more than 100 years, the canal has been a vital artery nourishing the world economy, a testament to American engineering and one of the signature public works of the 20th century. The new locks, built by Panama without help from other governments, were sold to the nation and the world as a way to ensure that the canal remained as much of a lifeline in the hyperglobalized 21st century as it was in the last.</div>
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Hundreds of passenger ships, cargo ships and tankers cross<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.66667;">But when the speeches and the celebrations end, one inescapable fact will remain: The expanded canal’s future is cloudy at best, its safety, quality of construction and economic viability in doubt, an investigation by The New York Times has found.</span></div>
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In simple terms, to be successful, the new canal needs enough water, durable concrete and locks big enough to safely accommodate the larger ships. On all three counts, it has failed to meet expectations, according to dozens of interviews with contractors, canal workers, maritime experts and diplomats, as well as a review of public and internal records.</div>
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The low winning bid, a billion dollars less than the nearest competitor’s, made “a technically complex mega-project” precarious from the outset, according to a confidential analysis commissioned by the consortium’s insurer. “There is little room in the budget for execution errors or significant inefficiencies,” the analysts, from Hill International, wrote in 2010, adding, “This is a high-risk situation.”</div>
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Among the biggest risks is the concrete that lines the walls of the six mammoth locks punctuating the path between the seas.</div>
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Last summer, water began gushing through concrete that was supposed to last 100 years but could not make it to the first ship. The Hill analysts had warned that the consortium’s budget for concrete was 71 percent smaller than that of the next lowest bidder. The budget also allotted roughly 25 percent less for steel to reinforce that concrete.</div>
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Then there is the lock design. Tugboat captains say they cannot safely escort the larger ships because the locks are too small with too little margin for error, especially in windy conditions and tricky currents. In fact, in a feasibility study obtained by The Times, the Panama Canal Authority had earlier concluded that the tugs needed significantly more room.</div>
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The tugboats themselves are a problem, especially the 14 new boats purchased from a Spanish company, mostly for the expanded locks. To maneuver safely, they must be precisely controlled, but according to captains, they are so unstable that they operate best going backward, something that cannot be done while towing ships through the canal.</div>
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“The Spanish tugs are perfectly awful,” said Iván de la Guardia, the head of the tugboat captains’ union. Confidential documents obtained by The Times show that the canal authority bought the tugboats for $158 million from a company later represented by the son of Jorge L. Quijano, the canal’s administrator.</div>
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The new locks exist for one reason: so that huge “neo-Panamax” ships can move far greater quantities of cargo through the canal. For them to do that, the waterway must remain deep enough so that fully laden ships do not hit bottom. But canal officials discounted warnings that they needed new sources of water, and during a recent drought, shippers had to significantly lighten their loads.</div>
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Canal officials had assured the country that no new reservoirs were needed. Later, Mr. Quijano took to scolding Panamanians for using too much tap water, which comes from the same freshwater lake that supplies the canal.</div>
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The consequences will be wide-ranging if the canal does not deliver as promised. American grain and soybean farmers and producers of liquefied natural gas, for example, may find it harder to sell to Asian customers. Asian manufacturers may forsake the struggling ports on America’s East Coast for those in the West. Or they, and ultimately consumers, will shoulder the added cost of going the long way around, through the Suez Canal.</div>
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At the same time, the canal’s success may be undercut by external forces: chiefly the slowdown in global trade, especially from China.</div>
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At the center of the story is the Panama Canal Authority, which oversaw the design of the new locks and chose the winning bidder. In a small country dominated by an old-money elite, where the very lifeblood is the canal, the authority is a power center unto itself, a government within a government.</div>
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The canal authority says that while any large, complex project is bound to encounter unexpected problems, the new locks are sound and safe.</div>
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“We can have a difference of opinion over one point or another,” said Roberto Roy, the president of the canal’s board of directors. “The one thing over which we cannot disagree is that the canal is a project that will bring an enormous amount of benefits to the public.”</div>
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Mr. Quijano said that in tests this week, canal workers were “performing the lockages with a high grade of precision and have maintained the highest standards of safety.” He added: “This is one of Panama’s finest hours. The country is elated.”</div>
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The consortium’s chief executive, Giuseppe Quarta, said tests had proved the group’s “technical ability in delivering a high-quality, fully functioning project.”</div>
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A trouble-free canal would cast a favorable light on a country embarrassed by government scandal and by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/panama-papers-explainer.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Times article.">Panama Papers</a>, which brought <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/americas/panama-papers-leak-casts-light-on-a-law-firm-founded-on-secrecy.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Times article.">a local law firm</a> international ignominy for setting up secret offshore accounts for wealthy customers from around the world.</div>
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Even residents who privately criticize canal management are reluctant to speak up for fear of appearing unpatriotic.</div>
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Eldon Gath, a geologist based in the United States, discovered quickly just how sensitive some Panamanians are about the canal. After Mr. Gath prepared a report for the canal authority noting the earthquake risk from faults under the canal, he recalled, Panama’s president at the time, Ricardo Martinelli, went on the attack.</div>
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“President Martinelli told us we had insulted the republic,” Mr. Gath said.</div>
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Grand in scale and beautifully imagined, the original Panama Canal is an engineering marvel. Ships glide through on a 50-mile water bridge. The lock gates, some weighing more than 700 tons, are watertight and buoyant, so finely balanced that should the power fail, a single person can manually open and close them.</div>
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Built by the United States after a failed attempt by the French left thousands dead, the canal operated with hardly a false note for 100 years using this procedure: As a ship approaches the locks, cables are attached to electric locomotives that run on rails alongside each of the lock walls.They draw the ship into the chamber, bring it to a stop, then draw it into the next chamber. Their constant tension winches keep the ship centered, ensuring safe and timely passage.</div>
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Three locks raise the ships 85 feet to Gatun Lake, which supplies water for the canal and drinking water for much of the country. Three more locks lower them back to sea level. All of the locks are filled and emptied by gravity, without pumps.</div>
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Over the decades, the canal made Panama, with few natural resources, a key square on the economic chessboard: a major banking, trading and airline hub, not to mention a transit zone for drug dealing and money laundering.</div>
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Then China’s economic ascent ushered in a new era. Ships became bigger. The more cargo they carried, the lower the cost. By 2000, ships were being built that could not pass through the canal. Fearing that its waterway might end up like the long-outdated Erie Canal, the canal authority <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/science/17canal.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Times article.">set out to build a bigger one</a>.</div>
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Contractors faced some of the same challenges that the Americans did a century before: tides up to 19 feet on the Pacific but only two on the Atlantic, unstable soil, and torrential downpours. They also had to excavate and dredge without disturbing the original canal operating alongside.</div>
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On top of that, just as it was about to solicit bids, the canal authority received some frightening news in November 2007. Jonathan Harris, a geologist working for the authority, reported that Panama’s earthquake risk was far greater than previously believed. By his assessment, the area is vulnerable to earthquakes of up to 8.0 magnitude, according to <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07PANAMA1898_a.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">a diplomatic cable</a> released by WikiLeaks.</div>
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So serious is the risk, Mr. Harris warned, that his consulting company “prohibits any of its employees working in Panama from living above the first floor in any building,” according to the cable.</div>
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The next month, the American Embassy heard similar warnings from Mr. Gath. Based on what he said, Panama’s earthquake risk was equal to San Francisco’s.</div>
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Even so, three consortiums — including one led by Bechtel, an American company with an international reputation for taking on big, difficult projects — pursued the contract. The financially weakest consortium was led by a Spanish company, Sacyr Vallehermoso, which American officials called “nearly bankrupt” in one cable and “technically bankrupt” in another.</div>
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Sacyr’s consortium included a Panamanian company owned by the family of the canal administrator at the time, Alberto Alemán Zubieta. The company, Constructora Urbana, in which Mr. Alemán himself previously owned stock, had already done millions of dollars in business with the canal. The other two members were Impregilo, a large Italian contractor, and Jan De Nul, a Belgian company that specializes in dredging and excavation.</div>
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In March 2009, after 15 months of contentious negotiations, the three consortiums submitted their sealed bids before a packed auditorium, with the president and diplomatic corps as witnesses. To heighten the drama, a motorcade delivered the envelopes to a vault at the National Bank for safekeeping. The one with the best price and design would win.</div>
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That July, with the nation watching on television, the bids were opened, and the result was a shocker: The underdog Sacyr group had won.</div>
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Bechtel and American diplomats were incredulous. Sacyr could not even “pour the concrete” for that amount, a Bechtel representative told the embassy, according to a diplomatic cable.</div>
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While Sacyr’s low offer meant Panama received a bargain on price, some viewed it as too good to be true.</div>
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A few days after Christmas in 2009, at lunch with Barbara J. Stephenson, the American ambassador, Panama’s vice president, Juan Carlos Varela, confided his fears. He elaborated in another meeting with an embassy official several weeks later: “You don’t mess around with something as important as the canal. When one of the bidders makes a bid that is a billion dollars below the next competitor, then something is seriously wrong,” he said, according to a diplomatic cable.</div>
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Given the canal’s importance to American commerce, the embassy assured Washington that it would closely monitor developments.</div>
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And it had another concern: the increasingly bizarre behavior of Panama’s president and former canal minister, Mr. Martinelli. By the end of his term in 2014, he would appoint most of the canal’s board of directors. Mr. Martinelli is now best known for something else: presiding over an administration that is the subject of roughly 25 corruption investigations.</div>
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In <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09PANAMA639_a.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">a confidential cable</a>, Ms. Stephenson noted Mr. Martinelli’s “penchant for bullying and blackmail,” as well as his plan to wiretap political adversaries, in part to find out whether his wife was having an affair.</div>
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The heading on another cable to Washington captured the moment: “Panama in mourning for justice.”</div>
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A Suspect Design</h3>
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Karen Smits arrived in Panama the day the Sacyr group won the contract. She was 27 and had grown up on a farm in the Netherlands. While her gender, blond hair and blue eyes made her stand out among the male construction workers, few people knew who she was or why she was hanging around their lunchrooms, hallways and in the field.</div>
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That would soon change. Ms. Smits, an organizational anthropologist, had come to the canal for her Ph.D. thesis on the cultural dynamics within the consortium as it set out to build the new locks. But after 85 interviews over a year, she came away with much more: a contemporaneous account of the tension and conflict emanating not just from cultural clashes, but also from the stress of completing a huge project on a rock-bottom budget.</div>
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“The top management of the European companies had not been entirely involved in the final stage of the tender process,” one consortium official told Ms. Smits, adding that when told the size of the winning bid, they were incredulous.</div>
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Carlos Fábrega, a senior official at the consortium’s Panamanian company, Constructora Urbana, attended some of the early meetings in Europe. “Everybody had their own issues,” Mr. Fábrega said in an interview. “Four partners. Different cultures. Different ways to approach a project.”</div>
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Some officials said the collaboration was like being trapped in a war or an arranged marriage. One Belgian manager told Ms. Smits that he had been instructed “to get rid of his Anglo-Saxon management skills, because those were too organized and too structured for operating in this company.” The manager promised to change immediately and, with a smile, ordered a few glasses of wine at lunch.</div>
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Concern over costs quickly escalated into heated exchanges over who was going to do what and for how much. “It is difficult to be flexible if you don’t have a budget to adjust some things, and you know the project is never going to go as planned,” Ms. Smits said.</div>
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Time was another issue. The contract called for the work to be completed in 1,883 days so that the opening would coincide with the 100th anniversary of the canal’s 1914 inauguration.</div>
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The canal authority would be a stern master. “They know what they want to be built,” the consortium’s consultants wrote. “The contract documents are thorough and very strict.”</div>
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They made one fact abundantly clear: The new canal would operate very differently from the old one.</div>
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This change weighed on Mr. de la Guardia, the stocky chief of the tugboat captains’ union, as he sat in a Panama City cafe one afternoon last December. “We don’t think it is going to work,” he said.</div>
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His opinion carries weight. A native Panamanian who graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Mr. de la Guardia has spent 20 years running tugboats in the canal. “We think it’s going to be a real mess,” he said. “I think something awful is going to happen.”</div>
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His concern stems from the canal authority’s decision to abandon locomotives to guide the ships. Tugboats will now push and pull vessels that are more than three football fields long and stacked with up to 13,000 containers, nearly three times as much as the old, smaller ships.</div>
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Tugboat captains fear that their boats will be overmatched.</div>
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Officials chose the new method after studying canals around the world, particularly Belgium’s Berendrecht Lock, which uses tugboats to move neo-Panamax ships. Not only is it cheaper, the canal authority said, it is more practical, given the ships’ immense size. The authority excluded canal workers from much of the planning, according to union representatives.</div>
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“I don’t know why anyone thought of Berendrecht as a model for the new locks here,” said Londor A. Rankin, the head of the union of canal pilots, who board transiting ships and direct them, along with the tugboats. “To begin with, it’s huge.”</div>
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Berendrecht also uses only freshwater, whereas Panama tugboats must contend with currents that result when saltwater and freshwater meet. The saltwater dives under. “They fight each other until they reach equilibrium,” Mr. de la Guardia said. “It creates a current 20 to 30 feet below the surface.”</div>
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1,400 ft.</div>
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But the locks’ size is the captains’ biggest concern — and they illustrate it on napkins, sheets of paper and blackboards. The new locks are 1,400 feet long and 180 feet wide. Big container ships are 1,200 feet long and 160 feet wide. Tugboats fore and aft measure nearly 100 feet each. Do the math, they say.</div>
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In fact, <a href="http://www.pancanal.com/esp/plan/estudios/0202-exec.pdf" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">a feasibility study</a> done by the canal authority in 2003 concluded that “for the tugboat system to work safely and efficiently in the locks,” the locks needed to be 328 feet longer and 40 feet wider than the big ships passing through. By that standard, the new locks should have been 1,528 feet long and 200 feet wide.</div>
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The current size, the captains noted, leaves little or no bailout room for the tugboats at either end should a problem arise.</div>
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“The mass of a ship, 122,000 tons coming at you — it’s going to run me over,” one captain, Manuel Ceballos Loaiza, said. With such a large surface exposed to the wind, the stacked cargo also acts as a sail, magnifying the tugboats’ challenge.</div>
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“We are five months away from inauguration, and I don’t know what I am going to do,” Mr. Ceballos said in December. “I haven’t been trained. They haven’t discussed the procedures. We have been asking them.” Five months later, captains said little had changed.</div>
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In late May, Mr. Rankin and two fellow pilots traveled to Europe at union expense to research how ships might move more safely through the locks.</div>
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Mr. Rankin said his union members were especially worried about the black plastic buffers, or fenders, attached to the canal walls to protect ships and the canal itself. “We feel they are not good enough,” he said.</div>
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The pilots studied cushioning methods used in Europe and concluded that large, floating fenders would be more effective.</div>
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“We know how to get ships through this set of locks,” Mr. Rankin said, referring to the old canal. “But the new locks are a different ballgame.”</div>
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Several years ago, the canal authority quietly tested its new method in the original canal, using smaller vessels.</div>
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“That didn’t work out too well, to be honest with you,” said Mr. Rankin, who did not participate in those tests but monitored them. “To my understanding, all of them had to use locomotive wires to avoid impact with the walls.”</div>
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The pilots now train on a small artificial lake, using miniature ships and tugboats scaled to one twenty-fifth of their actual size. They also use simulators.</div>
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But, as Mr. Rankin pointed out, the pilots’ success also depends on tugboat captains’ ability to get ships in and out of the locks. “They haven’t been trained properly, and that needs to be corrected by the administration,” Mr. Rankin said late last month.</div>
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Mr. Quijano said the captains had received proper training, including classes and simulations, and called their complaints a contract-negotiating ploy. He added that the locks could be made longer by using a backup gate; that would not, however, increase their width.</div>
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To assess the safety and efficacy of the canal authority’s plan, the International Transport Workers’ Federation hired experts to conduct simulations involving neo-Panamax ships. The study, released this year, concluded that the ships could pass through the locks under perfect, windless conditions, but would have trouble on windier days.</div>
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“We face a situation where those working on the canal, and those passing through it, are potentially at risk,” said the union’s general secretary, Stephen Cotton.</div>
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The canal authority said the study was seriously flawed. Mr. Rankin said his union had recommended using more tugboats to position ships before they entered the locks.</div>
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On a thick, overcast morning in April, Eric Viluce, a captain with 36 years of experience on the canal, climbed aboard the Cerro Santiago, a bulbous Spanish tugboat nesting just inside the canal’s Pacific entrance.</div>
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Mr. Viluce passed a lounge and kitchen before climbing a steep, winding staircase to his glass-enclosed captain’s aerie. A large color monitor showed ships moving through the nearby locks.</div>
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He was in good spirits. “Yesterday we had our first big shower,” he said, aware that the canal was short on water. “We desperately needed it.”</div>
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This day had been set aside to demonstrate the capabilities of the Santiago, one of 14 “tractor” tugs purchased primarily for the new locks. Mr. Viluce slowly backed the Santiago from its mooring and into the open canal before directing it toward the Celebrity Infinity, a white cruise ship heading for the old canal’s first set of locks.</div>
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This was when the Santiago’s navigational peculiarities became apparent. “I’ll go stern first,” Mr. Viluce announced. Easier to handle that way.</div>
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The Santiago is no outlier. Each Spanish tugboat can do a 360-degree spin. Each can move sideways, as Mr. Viluce demonstrated by positioning his boat perpendicular to the moving cruise ship and keeping it there. But to go confidently in a straight line, bow first — that’s another matter.</div>
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When it came time for the new tugboats to cross the Atlantic to Panama, all made the journey backward, Mr. Viluce said, adding, “They tried bow first, and it wasn’t working.”</div>
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The tugboat captains say precise control is necessary to maneuver a massive ship in and out of the new locks. It is akin to threading a needle while fighting wind, currents and waves. And moving backward is not an option when pulling a ship with a line tied to the stern. Shippers will pay an estimated $800,000 to send a neo-Panamax vessel through the canal, and dents and delays are not good for business.</div>
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The tugboat manufacturer, Astilleros Armón, did not respond to requests for an interview or to written questions.</div>
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But confidential documents obtained by The Times show a close business relationship between Armón and Jorge Alexander Quijano Richard, the canal administrator’s son, a lawyer who worked for MLS & Associates.</div>
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“Our law firm sent Mr. Quijano to Spain to visit Astilleros Armón, given that one of his main duties was to do marketing abroad to look for new business opportunities for the firm,” MLS said in a confidential response to a legislative inquiry in Panama.</div>
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Mr. Quijano joined MLS three days after the canal authority awarded the $158 million tugboat contract to Armón, records show. When he left for another law firm in 2013, he took Armón with him, MLS told investigators.</div>
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In an email, Mr. Quijano said he had not been involved in the bidding process, had not spoken to his father about the contract and had visited several companies on his trip to Europe.</div>
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His father said that captains had participated in the selection of the tugboats, and that the contract had been awarded to the bidder offering “the best value.”</div>
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Canal workers said they had also experienced problems with other tugboats, specifically Chinese boats with inferior clutches. The canal authority replaced the clutches for close to $10 million, but that did not fix the problem, according to several captains.</div>
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“The result has been worse,” Mr. de la Guardia said. He added that on any given day, no more than 30 of the fleet’s 46 tugboats are operational: not enough, he said, to operate the old and new locks.</div>
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Hundreds of Millions in Disputed Costs</div>
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It is no small undertaking, making concrete: good, solid concrete that will last 100 years and withstand the corrosive effects of saltwater in the locks. It requires cement — a pasty concoction of various chemicals — plus sand, rock and water. Too little cement, and the mixture will be porous and difficult to place. Too much cement, and it will be smooth and easy to place but susceptible to cracking.</div>
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The challenge is to find the correct combination of all components. Which was where the problems began.</div>
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Concrete manufacturing plants were built on both ends of the canal, but the raw materials, known as the aggregate, were excavated from the Pacific side. The aggregate, though, was not especially suitable for concrete.</div>
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Bechtel, the losing bidder, had suspected as much. “There was an enormous issue with concrete,” said Paul Gibbs, who led Bechtel’s effort to win the contract. “We realized the aggregate on the Pacific side of the locks did not have sufficient integrity to make concrete.” So Bechtel planned to import the aggregate. Expensive, but necessary, Mr. Gibbs said.</div>
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Early on, the winning consortium, with its small concrete budget, also found the rock quality poorer than expected, but it made adjustments. Then came a standoff.</div>
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Consortium officials said they had waited and waited for the canal authority to approve their concrete mix. The canal authority accused the consortium of simply refusing to pour the concrete. Mr. Alemán, the canal administrator before Mr. Quijano, told the local newspaper La Prensa, “They tried to show that they couldn’t do it, to the point where we said that we wouldn’t talk any more about concrete.”</div>
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When the consortium finally did pour, canal officials faulted its concrete management, including “concrete covering or lack of covering on reinforcement steel and the repeated lack of protection of concrete during rainfalls.”</div>
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In the end, the consortium sought $463 million from the canal authority to cover its losses from the long delays and poor-quality basalt. An arbitration panel sided with the consortium, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/business/consortium-of-canal-builders-win-settlement-in-panama.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Reuters brief.">awarding it more than $230 million</a>.</div>
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Concerns over concrete would figure in the resignations of two prominent consortium employees. One was Anthony De Vos, a geologist with the Belgian company, Jan De Nul. In July 2013, Mr. De Vos announced his departure in an email to colleagues, saying he was happy to be free of “dictatorial managers.” He singled out “numerous erroneous decisions” involving concrete.</div>
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“It is a big pity for Jan De Nul that we ended up in such a mess, but the damage is irreversible,” Mr. De Vos wrote. He declined to elaborate when reached recently by telephone.</div>
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Johnson Spratt, an excavations manager on the Pacific side, said he, too, had resigned in part because of concerns about concrete. When asked for details, Mr. Spratt quoted an old Spanish saying, “Lo barato sale caro”: That which is cheap comes out expensive.</div>
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By February 2014, the hostility was such that the consortium <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/business/deal-reached-to-resume-expansion-of-panama-canal.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Times article.">simply stopped work</a>, citing “the customer’s repeated unwillingness to act in the spirit of collaboration.”</div>
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Work eventually resumed, but when Mr. Quarta, the consortium’s new chief, arrived in Panama in early 2015, he found “very low morale” and a financial crisis.</div>
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“You don’t have credit from suppliers. You ask for materials and they don’t come,” Mr. Quarta said. “You live check by check, so it’s very difficult to plan.”</div>
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He said he had rallied his workers and gotten the project back on track, and by the middle of last year, the end was in sight.</div>
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Then, suddenly, during water tests in the canal, a public relations disaster: photographs and video showing water gushing from concrete in one of the Pacific locks — the same locks near the earthquake faults.</div>
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The problem had remained a secret for more than a week. But the images, posted anonymously on Aug. 23 by a canal worker, seemed to confirm everyone’s worst fears. This was no small leak. Water spurted from cracks extending across nearly the entire width of the lock, according to Ilya Espino de Marotta, the executive vice president for engineering at the canal authority. The breach occurred in a concrete block separating the lower and middle chambers.</div>
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For the canal authority, the delayed disclosure only magnified the embarrassment.</div>
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Asked by a legislator if he had tried to hide the leak, Mr. Quijano acknowledged only that he had taken too long to inform the public. “It’s not that we weren’t going to make it public, because we make everything public,” he said, explaining that he had been waiting for the consortium to determine whether the problem was the design or the quality of the concrete.</div>
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“We’re trying to have them give us an answer, and they haven’t given us one,” he complained.</div>
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Some days later, a consensus emerged: The design, not the concrete, was at fault. Ms. Marotta said in an interview that the leak had occurred only because the concrete was subjected to extreme pressure when one chamber was empty and the next was full. During normal operations, both chambers would contain water.</div>
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To fix the problem, the authority had two options: Tear down the concrete and rebuild it, an expensive remedy that would cause further delays, or drill holes and insert steel reinforcement bars. The decision was made to reinforce. Ms. Marotta said there had already been reinforcement in the affected areas, just not enough.</div>
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A nagging question, however, remained. If this chamber leaked, how about the others? And, indeed, a smaller leak was soon found on the Atlantic side.</div>
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A month after the first leak was discovered in the Pacific lock, further cracks were found during a new test. In one spot, water was not flowing, although the cracks were wet. But water was flowing from a much longer crack, measuring about 82 feet, according to a structural engineer’s report.</div>
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Now, the locks are patched up, their christening near. But in the Panamanian circles where people talk and worry about the canal, there is little unanimity about what exactly went wrong and what should have been done about it.</div>
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“The structural engineers inside the canal, who don’t want to give their names out of fear of being persecuted, have pointed out that those locks need to be knocked down and built again,” said Zulay Rodríguez, a lawyer and the chairwoman of a legislative subcommittee created to investigate possible irregularities within the canal authority.</div>
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Humberto Reynolds, a concrete expert, was not involved in investigating the leaks, but has monitored the situation and discussed it with fellow civil engineers at meetings of the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects. “The work hasn’t even been inaugurated, but it’s already being repaired,” he said.</div>
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Mr. Reynolds, who voted against the canal project, said he believed the problems stemmed from the wrong mix of concrete ingredients and substandard pouring practices. He called the work full of “intolerable anomalies” and criticized what he said was a trial-and-error method of fixing them.</div>
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Canal officials said all the problems had been properly repaired. “We are confident the concrete will last 100 years,” Mr. Quijano said.</div>
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‘The Lowest on Record for This Time of the Year’</div>
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In good times — and in Panama, that means when it rains — Gatun Lake is 85 feet above sea level. From its shore, you can see the Atlantic Ocean spreading out to meet the horizon. Without Gatun, Panama would be barely a footnote in history. Without Gatun, there would be no Panama Canal or the 10,000 people it employs, or the cash that pours into the national treasury, or the audacious skyline that speaks of money and power.</div>
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Once the world’s largest artificial lake, Gatun floats the ships that cross the canal and fills the water glasses of many, if not most, of Panama’s residents.</div>
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And that is why, on Feb. 17 of this year, the commercial world took careful notice of “ADVISORY TO SHIPPING No. A-05-2016”: a warning that Gatun was not in good health.</div>
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“Gatun Lake’s level is currently at 81.75 feet, the lowest on record for this time of the year,” the advisory said. The canal’s watershed runoff, it noted, was the second worst in history. Rainfall last year was 36 percent below normal.</div>
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<span class="caption-text">Gatun Lake supplies the canal and fills the water glasses of many, if not most, of Panama’s residents. In February, its water level was 81.75 feet, the lowest on record.</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem;">Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times</span></div>
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One month later, the canal authority instructed shippers to lighten their loads so their vessels did not hit bottom. A week and a half later, they were told to lighten them more. And 10 days later, even more.</div>
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Like the leak, the water shortage hit at an inopportune time. Just one day after the last load warning, the canal authorities issued instructions for neo-Panamax vessels seeking to use the new locks after they open. The large ships would not be able to carry much more than the smaller vessels in the old passage — hardly a good return on investment for shippers or the canal.</div>
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Load restrictions are not new, but these came after Gatun had been dredged to collect more water for the new locks. When they open, Gatun will have to supply nearly twice as much water for the old and new locks combined. Mr. Quijano declined to answer questions about water availability.</div>
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Canal officials blamed El Niño for the drought, and the load restrictions were eventually lifted after several days of heavy rain. But this weather pattern was no more unexpected than the prospect of more shortages due to global warming and increased public water consumption.</div>
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“We’re going to have some problems on the dry side,” said Jorge Espinosa, a former manager of the canal authority’s water resource unit. “This El Niño was pretty tough on the canal.”</div>
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In fact, two international banks had questioned the wisdom of expanding the canal without a new water source. In 2008, the Inter-American Development Bank called water availability “the principal project risk,” according to a consultant’s report last year.</div>
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The World Bank raised similar concerns in a 2008 report, citing, among other factors, faster-than-expected growth in Panamanians’ water consumption. If this trend continues, the bank said, it “may result in a reduction in the level of confidence at which the canal could operate.”</div>
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Canal officials, too, recognized the need to find more water as they began planning for the new locks. But their solution ran into a political firestorm.</div>
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In 1999, Mr. Alemán, the first canal administrator, had helped secure passage of a law giving the canal authority control over the western watershed, where dams could create a new reservoir.</div>
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The impoverished people who would have been displaced were not pleased, and with the help of a Roman Catholic Church activist group, they protested. It was morally wrong, the local bishop, Msgr. Carlos María Ariz, wrote in a letter to Panama’s president, to destroy the farmers’ “lifestyles and traditions” for the sake of the canal.</div>
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The government pushed back. Under pressure, the church appointed a new bishop and fired the activist group’s leader, Héctor Endara Hill, after 20 years of community work. Another leader of the protests, Francisco Aperador, whom the church had sent to Panama to work with the indigenous population, was expelled from the country, Mr. Endara said.</div>
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The new bishop “confessed in a team meeting that he was named to ‘chop heads,’ and mine was the first one to roll,” he said. “Later, after much mistreatment, harassment and persecution, a great majority were fired.”</div>
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The canal’s chief engineer, Thomas Drohan, was forced out around 2000, after criticizing the watershed plan, Mr. Endara said. Mr. Drohan declined to comment for this article.</div>
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But ultimately, fearing the loss of a national referendum on canal expansion, the legislature reversed itself in 2006 and rescinded the law. The canal authority switched positions, as well, and said it did not need a new reservoir. Water-saving basins were built so the canal could reuse 60 percent of the water that fills the locks as ships pass through, according to canal officials.</div>
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The basins, said Frank C. Townsend, a retired University of Florida civil engineering professor who grew up in Panama, are a “pretty savvy bit of engineering work.”</div>
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With the protests quelled, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/world/americas/23panama.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Times article.">the canal expansion passed</a> with 70 percent of the vote in the referendum, though less than half of the population turned out.</div>
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“If the new system ends up working,” said Ariel Rodríguez, a biologist formerly at the University of Panama, “they’ll discover in the next year that they are in crisis, that there isn’t water, that the ships can’t go through because there is no water. And what are people going to say? ‘Bring me water from anywhere and at whatever cost.’ ”</div>
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‘We Are Determined to Make This Thing Work’</div>
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On the morning of June 9, the training wheels came off as the first neo-Panamax ship, the Baroque Valletta, entered the first of three locks on the Atlantic side. With the official opening just two weeks away, canal officials wanted to be sure their locks worked as planned.</div>
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The Italian consortium member, now called Salini Impregilo, had invited foreign journalists to fly in and watch. But the canal authority had other ideas.</div>
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“They told me they don’t want journalists to see,” said Fabio Dal Boni, an Impregilo spokesman. “I said it is crazy. They are totally wrong.”</div>
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Impregilo told the authority that the crossing would not remain a secret because hundreds of canal workers would be watching, cellphones in hand, taking pictures. Canal officials relented. The journalists came.</div>
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<span class="caption-text">On June 9, the Baroque Valletta became the first cargo ship to use the new Panama Canal locks.</span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem;">Rodrigo Arangua/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span></div>
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Under a mostly sunny sky, history was made, as the Baroque passed through all three locks before anchoring in Gatun Lake. Leading the way was a familiar boat, the Cerro Santiago. A second Spanish tug was in the rear. The applause on shore was acknowledged with blasts from the ship’s horn.</div>
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The canal authority rushed out a news release heralding its accomplishment — though not without a bit of a linguistic faux pas. The completed project, the release said, is another example of the authority’s “myopic focus on customer service.”</div>
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The degree of difficulty for Baroque’s passage was actually quite low. The ship fit easily in the 1,400-foot lock because it is only 836 feet long, roughly two-thirds the length of the larger vessels. And it presented a small profile in the wind because, as a bulk carrier, it had no stacked containers.</div>
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Jan Kop, the project manager for Jan De Nul, the consortium’s Belgian member, watched the careful, slow procession. “We have seen that it is working,” he said with a smile.</div>
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Asked about the delayed opening, Mr. Kop said it was not unusual for a project of this size but added, “Yes, it would have been better had there been no delays.”</div>
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Gerry Wang, the chief executive of Seaspan Corporation, which charters large container ships, said not opening on time was “terrible” since ships had been built to take advantage of the bigger locks. “Some of those ships were delivered two or three years ago,” Mr. Wang said. “They still have not been able to go through the new Panama Canal.”</div>
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The canal authority’s plan to move about 12 neo-Panamax ships a day now appears unrealistic — at least for the time being, according to shippers, given that many East Coast ports are still preparing the infrastructure to accommodate the big ships.</div>
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The shippers are uncertain as well. “The Panama Canal situation has been very murky for a long time,” Mr. Wang said. “They don’t know whether the new Panama Canal can really handle the big vessels.”</div>
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Last week, after the reporters had departed, a lock gate malfunctioned during a trial with the Baroque. “That is the reason we do testing — to debug the works,” said Jorge de la Guardia, a senior official with the canal authority.</div>
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The authority now says that, during the rollout period, it expects the new locks to handle no more than three ships a day.</div>
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There are other loose ends, including assessing the project’s final cost. A spokesman for Salini Impregilo said the contractors were seeking at least $3.4 billion from the canal authority in excess expenses.</div>
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Mr. Kop recently told a Dutch news organization, De Volkskrant, that the canal authority had a very rigid attitude. “We rowed six years against the current,” he said. “There is a very small chance we survive this without any damage.”</div>
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There will be winners and losers in Panama as well. Important national issues such as infrastructure improvement and education have been set aside, said Mr. Rodríguez, the Panamanian professor. “Not a single group in the country has decided that those are a priority,” he said.</div>
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Miguel Antonio Bernal, a constitutional law professor at the University of Panama and an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Panama City in 2009, said no one dared speak out against the canal. “The only thing that makes the canal Panamanian is its name, because it belongs to the entrenched oligarchy,” said Mr. Bernal, who also represents the tugboat captains’ union.</div>
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Adolfo Ahumada, whose term on the canal board just expired, said serious public discussion was needed about earmarking canal income for social purposes. At the same time, he praised the board’s oversight of canal funds. “There is not a public institution whose finances are more monitored than the Panama Canal Authority,” he said.</div>
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While there have been no substantiated allegations of corruption in the expansion of the canal, the authority’s image has not been helped by the fact that most of the board members were appointed by Mr. Martinelli, the disgraced former president. Among the matters being studied by investigators is a public contract, not involving the canal, given to a company owned by a canal board member, Nicolás Corcione. Mr. Corcione declined to comment.</div>
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Mr. Martinelli is waiting out those investigations in Miami. He may be gone, but he is not out of touch.</div>
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This month, he sent a mocking Twitter message to the canal board’s chairman, Mr. Roy, and to Mr. Varela, who is now Panama’s president: “I haven’t received invitation to the canal expansion.”</div>
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It is entirely possible that the canal will work as intended: that water will be found, that the concrete will last, that the big ships will come, and that the Panamanian people will celebrate their historic accomplishment. That is certainly the hope, even among those who have privately or publicly expressed concern about the canal’s future.</div>
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“We are determined to make this thing work,” the pilot union leader, Mr. Rankin, said he had told Mr. Quijano. “We have a compact with the country to make this thing work.”<br />
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The U.S. remains the most important user, but a Chinese container ship will make the first official transit through the expanded canal June 26</div>
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More than 100 years ago when the SS Ancon sailed into the history books as the first ship to transit the Panama Canal, the waterway was a display of American ingenuity and the Panama Canal Zone was firmly in U.S. hands.</div>
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But the ship making the first official trip through the newly expanded canal next Sunday will be a Chinese megaship. The United States completely withdrew from the canal on Dec. 31, 1999, and there was barely any U.S. participation in the $5.5-billion canal project, which will allow the world’s bigger ships to transit Panama’s “highway of the sea.”</div>
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The United States remains the most important user of the canal and canal officials say it will be for the foreseeable future, but world trade patterns have shifted in the past century and China has become the world’s largest trading nation.</div>
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Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on June 26, China COSCO Shipping’s recently renamed 984-foot-long Panama will approach the new Agua Clara locks on the Atlantic side of the 50-mile long canal to begin the first official voyage through the expanded canal. It won the honor in a drawing among the canal’s top customers.</div>
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Although the new locks — tall as an 11-story building — are an engineering marvel and the expansion is expected to double the canal’s capacity, it’s been a long slog. The project is being delivered nearly two years behind schedule and various claims by the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grupo Unidos por El Canal</em> (Group United for the Canal), the international consortium that built the expansion, could push the price for the project even higher. The Panama Canal Authority also has its own counter-claims. Arbitration on the first unresolved claim gets underway in Miami in July.</div>
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But now —110-million man hours, 292,000 tons of structural steel, 1.6 million tons of cement and 5 million cubic meters of concrete later —the project is finished. Panamanian voters approved it in a 2006 referendum.</div>
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“This is a great project from an engineering and logistical point of view,” said Giuseppe Quarta, chief executive of the consortium.</div>
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The project, which got underway in 2007, included deepening and widening the entrances to the canal, widening and deepening the navigational channel through Gatún Lake, deepening the channel at Culebra Cut, raising the level of the lake, building a new 3.8-mile Pacific access channel, and construction of larger Atlantic and Pacific locks that are as long as three Empire State Buildings laid end to end.</div>
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The original canal, built at great human and financial cost, is simply too small to handle the bigger ships now plying the world’s trade routes. Smaller ships, however, will continue to use the original locks, and the old and new locks share much of the original canal route.</div>
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With the expansion able to handle longer, wider and heavier post-Panamax ships, the canal authority hopes to win back shipping lines that switched to the Suez Canal or used U.S. West Coast ports because their ships couldn’t fit through the original locks inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914.</div>
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As the COSCO Shipping Panama set sail last Saturday from Greece en route to its date with history, Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Quijano noted that “over a hundred years ago, the SS Ancon made history as the first vessel to transit the Panama Canal” and now Panama is on the verge of a new era “that will change the face of global shipping and international commerce.”</div>
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Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela will preside over a ceremony at the Agua Clara locks celebrating those who worked on the project. Then the Chinese ship will proceed to the 3 p.m. main event on the Pacific side of the canal.</div>
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At least 10 heads of state as well as port directors and shipping executives from around the world are expected at the Cocoli locks to mark the inaugural passage. The next day, the new locks will open for regular commercial traffic. Already, shipping lines have made more than 120 reservations for the new locks.</div>
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As he watches the Chinese ship finally enter the locks, Manuel E. Benítez, deputy administrator of the canal authority, said, “I”ll be a happy man.”</div>
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The timing for delivery of the project hasn’t been great. Not only have low water levels brought on by an El Niño-induced drought in the Panama Canal Watershed hampered shipping operations through the canal this year, but the economic slowdown in China and too many ships chasing too little cargo on many shipping routes worldwide also have taken a toll.</div>
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“This has probably been one of the worst years for the container industry,” said Benítez. “Eventually we see the shipping industry coming out of this.”</div>
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But Benítez said the hope is that the canal will not only be able to capture traffic that shifted to the Suez Canal but also pick up about 10 percent of the cargo that now goes directly from Asia to U.S. West Coast ports.</div>
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Cargo arriving at Long Beach and Los Angeles — the two busiest ports in the United States — is shipped by rail or trucked to the Midwest and East Coast. The West Coast route is faster but it’s cheaper to ship cargo through the canal to East Coast ports.</div>
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Meanwhile, the delays in completion of the expansion have given U.S. East Coast ports and other ports around the Americas more time to complete dredging and other improvements so that the big ships transiting the canal can enter their shipping channels fully laden.</div>
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Although a number of ports are at various stages of dredging projects, only Norfolk, Va.; Baltimore and PortMiami are big-ship ready on the East Coast.</div>
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With its shipping channels now dredged to a depth of 50 to 52 feet, massive super post-Panamax cranes in place, and a new port access tunnel and rail bridge completed, PortMiami hopes to become a first port of call for post-Panamax ships.</div>
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Miami-Dade County’s commitment to deepen the port “has put us in a position on the eve of the opening of the canal expansion that we can say we are a player, a significant player in this business,” said PortMiami Director Juan Kuryla. “The deep water is a game changer for us.”</div>
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Now container ships sometimes steam right past Miami and unload cargoes destined for Florida at ports like Savannah that have sophisticated distribution centers. Then the goods are trucked back down the Florida Peninsula to be sold in the Sunshine State.</div>
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At a minimum, Kuryla would like to get some of that Florida-bound cargo back and enhance Miami’s position as a trans-shipment point for cargo destined for smaller ports in the Caribbean — and perhaps even attract some of the cargo that currently heads to West Coast ports.</div>
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“Fifty-five percent of the products consumed in Florida don’t come in through Florida ports,” he said. “We need to get that Florida cargo.”</div>
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Kuryla will be on hand in Panama for the inaugural transit. “It’s the event of a lifetime for a port director,” he said. But PortMiami will be having a celebration of its own on July 9 when the first post-Panamax ship that has traveled through the new locks arrives in Miami. By year’s end, Kuryla hopes big ships will be regularly calling in Miami.</div>
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In Panama, the canal is not only the economic lifeblood of the country that sits between two oceans, but the expansion project has become a huge source of pride for Panamanians.</div>
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THE CANAL IS THE ADVANTAGE THAT PANAMA HAS OVER EVERYONE — AND IT ALWAYS WILL</div>
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“The canal is the advantage that Panama has over everyone — and it always will,” said Philip Nichols, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “They know they have an income, no matter what. It’s like having a good, solid lead tenant when you’re building a development.”</div>
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But fees from ships transiting through the canal aren’t Panama’s only source of canal-derived income. Panama has become a thriving trans-shipment point for Latin America-bound cargoes, it is developing a new port on the Atlantic side of the canal and it is in the process of bidding out construction for a new port at Corozal on the Pacific side.</div>
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“Panama is a natural trans-shipment hub,” said Benítez. In recent years, cargo handled by the Port of Balboa on the Pacific has grown from about 250,000 containers a year to 3.5 million, he said.</div>
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Although the paint is barely dry on the new locks, the Panama Canal Authority is already studying the possibility of another larger set of locks because ships too big to fit through the new locks are already being built.</div>
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Panamanians who have worked on the canal feel a sense of accomplishment now that the project is complete. During the peak of construction, there were 30,000 workers laboring around the clock. In the last few weeks, about 2,000 workers have rushed to complete roads, landscape, paint, work on the blue-roofed buildings and finish other last-minute details.</div>
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The international consortium responsible for the design and construction of the project completed the locks on May 31, and in recent weeks, tests have been run — including putting a rented container ship through its paces at the new Atlantic locks.</div>
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The consortium includes Spain’s Sacyr Vallhermoso, Italy’s Salini Impregilo, which specializes in water projects; Jan de Nul Group, a Belgium-based dredging company; and CUSA, a Panamanian construction company.</div>
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On a recent day, Junior Moreno, 30, stood atop a 3,200-ton gate at the new Pacific locks with a walkie-talkie in hand as it began to move. It was his job to ensure safety as the rolling gate glided seamlessly along a track.</div>
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“I feel quite proud to be a part of this,” he said. He’s regularly taken pictures of the expansion’s progress and explains what is going on to his 11-year-old son, Junior Javier.</div>
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Plus, he said, working on the project “is one of the best construction jobs in Panama right now.” He said his $1,500 monthly pay is about double what he might earn at another job site.</div>
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Because of all the training by the consortium, many of the workers have picked up new skills.</div>
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But there also have been some other dividends for Panama during the expansion project. The excavation has been like a huge archaeological dig. Under a contract with the canal authority, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute collected and catalogued 8,862 items.</div>
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Pre-Colombian arrowheads, colonial artifacts and machinery used during the French era at the canal were unearthed, and fossil and archaeological discoveries, including 21-million-year-old fossilized monkey teeth, have led to a new understanding of the time before the Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America.</div>
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“The theories of the origin of the isthmus have been revised,” said Benítez.</div>
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PANAMA CANAL TIMELINE</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1881</span>: French begin construction of Panama Canal and start hiring 30,000 West Indians to work on construction.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1889</span>: Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat directing construction, abandons the project. Some 20,000 people have died, mostly from malaria and yellow fever, during the eight-year endeavor. Another 5,000 would die during the U.S. construction phase.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1902</span>: U.S. Senate votes in favor of Panama, rather than Nicaragua, as site for a canal through Central America.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1903</span>: Panama declares independence from Colombia and the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed granting the U.S. a narrow strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama and the right to build a canal.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1904</span>: The United States buys canal equipment and infrastructure from the French for $40 million and acquires control of the Panama Canal Zone from Panama for $10 million. The U.S. dollar becomes Panama’s official currency. Construction begins on the canal.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Aug. 15, 1914</span>: The 50-mile-long canal opens to ship traffic. SS Ancon is the first ship to traverse the waterway.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1964</span>: A tumultuous year in which anti-U.S. rioting erupts, including the so-called flag riots. Twenty-one Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers are killed in the clashes.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1973-74</span>: Negotiations on a more equitable canal agreement take place under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1977</span>: During the Carter administration, negotiations are completed for new canal treaties that call for the eventual turnover of the canal to Panama.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1979</span>: Panama Canal Treaties, which return the Canal Zone but not the canal to Panama, become law.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">1989</span>: The United States sends 24,000 troops to oust Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega in an operation that has been described as part drug raid, part war.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Dec, 31, 1999</span>: The canal is handed over to Panama.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Oct. 22, 2006</span>: Panamanians vote for the expansion project.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">2009</span>: Contracts awarded for various parts of the expansion.</div>
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<span class="ng_factbox_bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">June 26, 2016</span>: The canal expansion is set to officially open.</div>
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At the trial in Florence, he is seeking to overturn the conviction, while the prosecution seeks a longer prison term.</div>
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The Costa Concordia capsized after it hit rocks close to Giglio island.</div>
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On Thursday, lawyers of the 55-year-old captain are expected to argue that the disaster off Tuscany's coast was a collective failure of the ship's crew and others should share the blame for the disaster.</div>
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Schettino, who has not yet begun his sentence, also denies that he abandoned ship before passengers and crew had been evacuated.</div>
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Meanwhile, the prosecution is seeking a 26-year prison term.</div>
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If Schettino loses his appeal, he can try again at Italy's highest court - the Court of Cassation.</div>
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In February 2015, he was sentenced to 10 years for multiple manslaughter, five years for causing the shipwreck and one year for abandoning his passengers.</div>
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Investigators had severely criticised his handling of the disaster, accusing him of bringing the 290m-long vessel too close to shore when it struck the rocks.</div>
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More than 4,000 passengers and crew were forced into a chaotic evacuation.</div>
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During the trial, Schettino said he had taken the ship so close to land for "commercial reasons" in a bid to please his passengers and those ashore.</div>
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He had also rejected rumours that he had wanted to impress his lover, Domnica Cemortan, who was with him at the helm.</div>
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Costa Crociere, the company that owned the ship, sidestepped potential criminal charges in 2013 by agreeing to pay a €1m ($1.1m; £779,000) fine.</div>
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It is being sued by survivors, the Tuscany region and Giglio island for further damages.</div>
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Five other employees, including the helmsman, were handed prison sentences ranging from 18 months to two years and 10 months in plea bargains concluded early in the investigation.</div>
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17 January 2012</div>
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16 January 2012</div>
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15 January 2012</div>
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14 January 2012</div>
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An independent safety study into the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">Panama Canal expansion</strong>, which was commissioned by the <a href="http://www.itfglobal.org/en/global/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #008cba; line-height: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ITF</a> (<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">International Transport Workers’ Federation</strong>) and released this morning at a press conference in Panama City, has raised pressing concerns about the canal’s new locks.</div>
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The ITF commissioned the study, which was carried out by <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">Brazil’s Fundação Homem de Mar</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">(FHM)</strong>, in response to safety concerns raised by its Panamanian member unions (see <a href="http://www.itfglobal.org/en/news-events/press-releases/2015/september/itf-commissions-panama-canal-safety-study/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #008cba; line-height: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/TdcK5Y</a>). FHM was tasked with preparing a mathematical model, using a Manoeuvring Simulator Class A, to recreate the new locks, a <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">neo-Panamax vessel</strong> and the<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">tugboats</strong> that would assist its manoeuvres.</div>
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The concerns raised by the unions centred on the Panama Canal Administration’s refusal to engage in dialogue on matters such as <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">training</strong>, as well as the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">technical and construction issues</strong> that have led to delays in the operation of the new infrastructure. They have been borne out by the study’s simulation exercises. These, using a neo-Panamax model vessel and two tugboats, concluded that the safety of manoeuvrability is compromised due to several factors:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">The locks’ dimensions are too small for safe operation (with both gates closed);</strong></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">There are no refuge areas for the tugboats inside the locks, leaving no room for failure (human error, miscommunication, broken lines or engine failure);</strong></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">The bollard pull is insufficient;</strong></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">In terms of manoeuvrability in the locks, the control of the vessel was compromised under the average environmental conditions present in that geographic area (data provided by the contracting party). The main reasons were the low power of the tugboats and the required bollard pull. With milder conditions the exercise was concluded safely.</strong></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">The study recommends that a complete risk analysis and special training should be carried out to avoid any accidents that may result in loss of life or pollution.</strong></li>
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The full study can be seen at a <a href="http://admin.itfglobal.org/media/1373318/rs_034_rev03-1.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #008cba; line-height: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/17QF2K</a>. A video of a simulated transit can be seen below:</div>
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The study’s conclusions were released this morning at a press conference in Panama City attended by leading representatives of trade unions, safety and maritime organisations, as well as government representatives.</div>
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The ITF, like its Panamanian member unions, has previously offered to work with the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) to ensure that the safety concerns of those who will work on the new infrastructure are addressed, and is making the study available to the PCA.</div>
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Speaking from Panama City, ITF general secretary Steve Cotton said: “I wish I could report that the study gave the new locks the all clear. Sadly, I can’t. Instead we face a situation where those working on the canal, and those passing through it, are potentially at risk. That will have to change.”</div>
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“The study was based on the PCA’s original plan to use one forward tug and one aft tug. We understand that compensatory alternatives are being examined, which we welcome.”</div>
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He continued: “The issues identified in this study will not be a surprise to workers on the canal. Unfortunately their expertise and experience have up to now been snubbed. Thankfully they’re still on offer. Those who’ll be working these locks have to be brought into the process, while there’s still time to fix the defects.</div>
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“We share our affiliated unions’ concerns and we can assure that The ITF and its canal affiliates want the new canal to be safe and to work. The Panama Canal is crucial for the international maritime industry. We offer our full support to make this important maritime route safe for all those who transit it or work on it, and for a positive engagement between unions and the PCA.”</div>
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He concluded: “We believe that this is an issue where there is common ground with shipowners, insurers and others in the maritime industry, so we will seek to engage them in the discussions and strategies for improvement in this crucial area and may also consider updating the simulation to cover new manoeuvring alternatives in co-operation with the PCA, as well as other shipping industry representatives.”</div>
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A white-faced capuchin, <em>Cebus capucinus</em>, hangs from a tree in Panama. Photo by Sean Mattson/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute</div>
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<span class="story_dl">PANAMA CITY, Panama, April 20 (UPI) --</span> For the first time, a monkey fossil dated prior to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama has been discovered in North America. The fossil was excavated after being exposed during the Panama Canal expansion project.</div>
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The Isthmus of Panama first rose from the sea, connecting North American and South America, some 3.5 million years go. The monkey teeth recovered during the project are at least 21 million years old.</div>
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As engineers bulldozed and dynamited the earth in preparation for the expansion of the Panama Canal, a team of researchers with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, as well as the University of Florida and New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, scampered into exposed bedrock and recovered fossils and evidence of the region's rich geologic past.</div>
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"I asked my boss for a million dollars to dig a hole in the ground," STRI researcher Carlos Jaramillo <a class="tpstyle" href="http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/first-north-american-monkey-fossils-are-found-panama-canal-excavation" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said in a news release</a>. "Then the Panamanian people voted for the Panama Canal Authority to spend $5.6 billion dollars to expand the Canal and unlocked a treasure trove for us, containing this new monkey species and many other fossils."</div>
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Scientists decided to name the newly discovered monkey species<em>Panamacebus transitus</em>, an homage to Panama's international traffic and the migrating monkey's seafaring ways.</div>
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Previously, researchers assumed New World monkeys evolved in isolation, cut off from North America by a wide expanse of sea. But the new findings --<a class="tpstyle" href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17415.html" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">detailed in the journal Nature</a> -- suggest some species were able to expand their range prior to the formation of the land bridge.</div>
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"We suggest that <em>Panamacebus</em> was related to the capuchin -- also known as 'organ-grinder' monkeys -- and squirrel monkeys that are found in Central and South America today," explained Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.</div>
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There's been very little fossil evidence of animals moving from South American to North America. Some researchers suggest mammals from South America simply preferred the jungles to the south, while other say the lack of evidence may simply be the result of a limited fossil record in Central America.</div>
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The latest discovery suggests there are indeed fossils waiting to be uncovered -- a few which might further shift scientists' understanding of ancient migrations in the Americas.</div>
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In June 2013, the Nicaraguan legislature passed a law to grant a 50-year concession to the <a href="http://hknd-group.com/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development</a> (HKND) Investment Group, led by Chinese billionaire Wang Jing, whose finances are surrounded by a lack of transparency, which compounds the uncertainty.</div>
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In a formal ceremony held by Nicaraguan authorities and representatives of HKND in December 2014, road repairs were launched in Brito, in the southwestern department of Rivas, where the canal empties into the Pacific Ocean.</div>
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The roads were needed to begin construction of a port complex for the canal in Brito in December 2015.</div>
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But no more work has been done, either on the canal or its subprojects: an international airport, two deepwater ports, an industrial free trade zone, tourist resorts, warehouse areas and factories to produce construction materials.</div>
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However, Telémaco Talavera, spokesman for Nicaragua's canal commission, told IPS that there are no delays in the project, which is moving ahead in line with HKND's plans.</div>
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The official, who is a presidential adviser with the rank of minister, said an army of international experts is working hard to draw up technical and scientific studies to guarantee the quality of the project.</div>
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Talavera said there were archaeological, geological, seismic, topographical and water salinity studies, as well as maps, satellite images and mitigation plans, and studies to complement the environmental and social impact assessment, which was completed in 2015.</div>
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The last visible effort was made in March: More than 15,000 archaeological artifacts from the pre-Columbian era found along the route selected for the canal in the country's Pacific coast area were turned over to the state in a public ceremony in Managua.</div>
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At an international level, Bill Wild, HKND's chief project adviser, told the local newspaper El Nuevo Diario that the key works in the Brito port complex would begin in August or September.</div>
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According to Wild, since 2014 the company has carried out complex engineering and design studies, hiring specialised companies from around the world for specific tasks, prior to starting the infrastructure works.</div>
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The 278-km canal, up to 520 metres wide and 30 metres deep, <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/nicaragua-pins-hopes-for-progress-on-grand-canal/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">will link the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean Sea</a>. Of that length, 105 km will cross Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca.</div>
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In 2013 it was announced that the canal would be operational by late 2019, at a cost of over 50 billion dollars – more than four times the country's GDP.</div>
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According to the government, the project will end the poverty that affects over 40 percent of the population of 6.2 million people, by boosting GDP growth from an average of four percent annually over the last five years to more than 10 percent.</div>
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<img alt="In the municipality of Moyogalpa, on Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, local boats are having a hard time getting around because of the low water level caused by the drought affecting Nicaragua since 2014. Credit: Ramón Villareal Bello/IPS" class="size-full wp-image-144536" height="480" src="http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2016/04/Nicaragua-21.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" />In the municipality of Moyogalpa, on Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, local boats are having a hard time getting around because of the low water level caused by the drought affecting Nicaragua since 2014. Credit: Ramón Villareal Bello/IPS</div>
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On its website, HKND Group announces contracts with international firms, such as<a href="http://www.csaglobal.com/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CSA Global</a>, an Australian geological, mining and management consulting company, and the Britain-based <a href="http://www.bmt.org/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BMT Asia Pacific</a>, an international design, engineering and risk management consultancy company, to develop operating plans for the canal and its ports.</div>
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However, two factors have dampened enthusiasm for the project: the news of the financial losses suffered by HKND Group CEO Wang Jing and a severe two-year drought that has made Lake Nicaragua virtually unnavigable.</div>
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In 2015, the press reported that Wang Jing's net worth had shrunk from 10.2 to 1.1 billion dollars, when he lost nearly 85 percent of his fortune due to China's stock market crisis.</div>
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Neither Wang Jing, nor HKND Group, nor the Nicaragua canal commission has issued any declaration with regard to these reports.</div>
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This, added to the lack of information about the financiers who are to provide more than 50 billion dollars for the project, has led opponents of the canal, such as Octavio Ortega Arana, president of the Municipalities of Rivas Foundation, to argue that the projected timeframes will not be met.</div>
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"I don't see any progress towards the supposed canal and I think what the government really wants is to get its hands on the valuable land of peasant farmers, for private business interests of the Sandinista Party and relatives of President Daniel Ortega," the activist told IPS.</div>
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Ortega governed from 1985 to 1990 as the leader of the leftwing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), returned to power in 2007, and will run again for reelection in November, thanks to a constitutional reform that scrapped limits to the number of terms that Nicaraguan presidents can serve.</div>
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The activist Ortega Arana said another situation that casts a shadow over the canal project, added to the <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/11/nicaraguas-interoceanic-canal-a-nightmare-for-environmentalists/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">resistance</a> mounted by thousands of families living along the projected canal route, is the severe drought plaguing the country since 2014, which has undermined the navigability of Lake Nicaragua.</div>
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The devastating effects of climate change and deforestation near the country's main water sources, including Lake Nicaragua and the Brito, Las Lajas and San Juan Rivers, which are key to construction of the canal, have been widely discussed in news reports, environmental newsletters, the social networks and even by local authorities.</div>
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The government's <a href="http://www.epn.com.ni/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">national port authority</a>, EPN, acknowledged this month that due to the drought and the lower water levels, cargo vessels have had a hard time docking in Lake Nicaragua.</div>
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The authorities have been dredging areas near the lake ports to make it possible for smaller boats to operate.</div>
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"How are these enormous ships supposed to cross the lake when not even little wooden fishing boats can get around now?" asked Ortega Arana.</div>
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However, government officials on the Nicaragua canal commission, such as ecologist Kamilo Lara, say the environmental impact of the drought and decades of deforestation of the area surrounding the lake and the river basins could be curbed by the new infrastructure and environmental mitigation works.</div>
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"The studies for the canal include these scenarios and worse ones regarding <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/04/climate-change-dries-up-nicaragua/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">climate change</a>, which contemplate projects to reforest millions of hectares of land in the water basins and create artificial lakes that would provide the canal route with water," Lara told IPS.</div>
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Talavera argued that the lake would begin to be saved once construction of the canal began. "Today more than ever we need the resources that will come from the Great Interoceanic Canal, to invest them in restoring the environment, and to be able to address the risks posed by climate change," he said.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edited by Estrella Gutiérrez/Translated by Stephanie Wildes</em></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Moscow and Tehran are holding talks on digging a ship canal from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, said Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanai, speaking to students in St. Petersburg. Any canal linking the two has to go through Iran.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Yes, this issue is being discussed"</i>, said the ambassador on Thursday without specifying details, quoted by TASS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water in the world. Its coastline is 7,000 kilometers long and is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Also on Thursday, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran agreed to speed up the talks on a North-South transport corridor, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Part of it will go along the western coast of the Caspian Sea from Russia to Iran through Azerbaijan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The North-South corridor, when built, is expected to significantly reduce the time of cargo transport from India to Central Asia and Russia. At present, it takes about 40 days to ship goods from Mumbai in India to Moscow. The new route will be able to cut this time to 14 days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The corridor will also bypass the overloaded and expensive Suez Canal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Panama Canal Authority said its new locks will be inaugurated June 26, more than two years after the original completion target.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Canal officials announced the date for the opening ceremony while unveiling a training center with a scale model that will be used to train pilots and tugboat captains to operate in the expanded canal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“The dream of expansion will become a reality when we inaugurate the biggest infrastructure project in the history of the canal and the country of Panama,” said canal administrator Jorge L. Quijano.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Ocean carriers are eager for the opening of the new locks, which will be 1,400 feet long, 140 feet wide and 60 feet deep, compared with the 1,000-by-110-by-40-foot dimensions of the three sets of existing locks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The new locks will accommodate vessels with capacities of up to 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units, depending on the vessel design. The current Panamax size is 4,500-5,000 TEUs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Operators of other ships, including pure car and truck carriers, bulk carriers and tankers, also will be able to take advantage of the new locks’ larger dimensions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Carriers have been planning route realignments that the new canal will make possible, but canal officials and most analysts expect <a href="http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/trade-lanes/slow-debut-new-services-through-panama-canal-locks-anticipated_20160206.html" style="color: #13506f;">the new routings</a> to be implemented gradually over several months after the new locks open.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Canal officials said work on the expansion is 97 percent complete, and that final testing will continue in advance of the June 26 opening ceremony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Work on the expanded locks began in 2007. The canal authority’s original schedule called for work to be completed by April 2014, the 100th anniversary of the canal’s opening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">That schedule was pushed back several times by construction delays and other developments, including a dispute with the international construction consortium handling the project, and<a href="http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/reported-crack-new-panama-canal-lock-raises-concerns_20150824.html" style="color: #13506f;">cracks detected last fall</a> in one of the new locks on the canal’s Pacific side.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The contractor has worked to correct the problem by inserting 2 ¼-inch-diameter steel reinforcing rods into the concrete sills, and the canal authority said last month that the reinforced locks had been successfully tested.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The expansion’s original cost was estimated at $5.25 billion, but the delays and overruns are reported to have pushed <a href="http://www.joc.com/port-news/panama-canal-news/delays-construction-glitches-bust-panama-expansion-budget_20160121.html" style="color: #13506f;">the final bill higher</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The June 26 dedication of the new locks is expected to be followed by the start of commercial operation during the third quarter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Panama President Juan Carlos Varela joined other Panamanian officials in dedicating the canal’s training center for pilots and tug captains. The 35.3-acre center features two lakes connected by a channel modeled after the canal's Culebra Cut. The new facility features docking bays, replicas of the new and existing locks, gates, and chambers, all at a 1:25 scale.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The training center includes scale-model Panama Canal tugboats and ships including bulk carriers modeled after the Nord Delphinus and a container ship modeled after the Maersk Edinburgh. A model of a liquefied natural gas carrier will be delivered by September, canal officials said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The facility features wave and wind generators, and complements training already provided at the canal’s Center of Simulation, Research and Maritime Development through 360-degree training simulations and courses.</span></div>
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Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua</h1>
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MANAGUA, Apr 05 (IPS) - A three-year drought, added to massive deforestation in the past few decades, has dried up most of Nicaragua's water sources and has led to an increasingly severe water supply crisis.</div>
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Since January, photos and videos showing dried-up streams, rivers and lakes have been all over the social networks, local news media, blogs and online bulletins of environmental organisations.</div>
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Jaime Incer, a former minister of the environment and natural resources and the president of the <a href="http://www.fundenic.org.ni/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Nicaraguan Foundation for Sustainable Development</a> (Fundenic-SOS), is one of the loudest voices warning about the accelerated environmental deterioration in the country.</div>
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Incer told IPS that by late March the country had lost 60 percent of its surface water sources and up to 50 percent of its underground sources, which either dried up or have been polluted.</div>
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To illustrate, he cited the disappearance of at least 100 rivers and their tributaries in Nicaragua, and the contamination of Tiscapa and Nejapa lakes near Managua, as well as lake Venecia in the western coastal department of Masaya and lake Moyúa in the northern department of Matagalpa.</div>
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The scientist said the country's largest bodies of water are also in danger: the 680-km Coco river, the longest in Central America, which forms the northern border with Honduras, is now completely dry for several stretches of up to eight km in length.</div>
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The water level in the river is at a record low, to the extent that it can be crossed by foot, with the water only ankle-deep.</div>
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And because of the low water level in the country's other big river, the San Juan, along the southern border with Costa Rica, large sand banks now block the passage of boats, despite the dredging operations carried out in the last few years.</div>
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In addition, the 8,624-sq-km Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca, the biggest freshwater reserve in Central America has suffered from serious water losses since 2012, which means docks and piers have been left high and dry, said Incer.</div>
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The same thing is happening in the country's other large lake, Xolotlán, in Managua.</div>
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Although clean-up operations in the lake were launched in 2009, the results of these efforts have not been announced. But what is clearly visible is that since the drought began in 2014, the shoreline has receded up to 200 metres in some areas, according to reports by Fundenic-SOS.</div>
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<img alt="This is what Lake Moyúa in northern Nicaragua looked like before it lost 60 percent of its water due to the effects of the El Niño climate phenomenon, which in this Central American country has spelled drought. Credit: Matagalpa.org" class="size-full wp-image-144469" src="http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2016/04/Nicaragua-2.jpg" height="427" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" />This is what Lake Moyúa in northern Nicaragua looked like before it lost 60 percent of its water due to the effects of the El Niño climate phenomenon, which in this Central American country has spelled drought. Credit: Matagalpa.org</div>
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The environmental organisation does not only blame the crisis on the impact of climate change that has been felt in Nicaragua since 2014 due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - a cyclical climate phenomenon that affects weather patterns around the world - but also the lack of public policies to curb the rampant deforestation.</div>
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The big forest reserves in the south of the country have shrunk up to 40 percent, according to a study by the British consultancy <a href="http://www.erm.com/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Environmental Resources Management</a> (ERM), hired by the Chinese consortium <a href="http://hknd-group.com/portal.php?mod=list&catid=3" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">HKND Group</a> to carry out feasibility studies for <a href="http://www.humboldt.org.ni/www.ipsnews.net/2015/03/nicaraguas-future-canal-a-threat-to-the-environment/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the canal</a> it is to build that will link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua.</div>
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The environmental deterioration of the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve and the Cerro Silva and Punta Gorda nature reserves in southeast Nicaragua was worse in the period 2009-2011 than in the previous 26 years, the ERM reported in 2015.</div>
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The study says that between 1983 and 2011, "nearly 40 percent of the natural land cover in southeast Nicaragua was lost."</div>
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The non-governmental <a href="http://www.humboldt.org.ni/" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #382513; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Humboldt Centre</a> also reported 40 percent loss of forest cover in Bosawas, the largest forest reserve in Central America, declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1997.</div>
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Food security, a major victim</div>
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The impact of the drought has been felt in the economy and the food security of a large part of this country's population of 6.2 million people, 2.5 million of whom live on less than two dollars a day and 20 percent of whom are undernourished, according to statistics from international bodies.</div>
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Organisations of farmers, stockbreeders and tourism businesses have complained about economic damages caused by water shortages.</div>
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For example, the National Livestock Commission of Nicaragua (CONAGAN) confirmed in February that the sector is extremely concerned about the scarcity of water in the parts of Nicaragua that account for at least 30 percent of the country's livestock.</div>
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What worries them the most is that according to international and national weather reports, the drought caused by El Niño could last through August, when the first rainfall in 2016 is forecast.</div>
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And this month, the Union of Agricultural Producers in Nicaragua (UPANIC) estimated losses caused by the drought at 200 million dollars in 2015.</div>
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Nicaragua's Central Bank, meanwhile, reported that in 2015, the drought affected hydropower production – the least costly energy in terms of production costs.</div>
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Sociologist Cirilo Otero, the director of the Centre of Environmental Policy Initiatives, said the part of the country hit hardest by water shortages is the so-called "dry corridor" – a long, arid stretch of dry forest where 35 of the country's 153 municipalities are located.</div>
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According to Otero's studies, the impact of the drought and the lack of water in that region, which stretches from northern to south-central Nicaragua, has been so heavy that 100 percent of the crops have been lost and 90 percent of the water sources have dried up.</div>
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"The measures adopted by the government are ‘asistencialistas' (band-aid or short-term in nature) - water and food are distributed on certain days – but there are no public policies to curb deforestation in the pine forests in the mountains of Dipilto and Jalapa, and that is one of the main causes of the disappearance of rivers and wells," Otero told IPS.</div>
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He said children and the elderly are suffering the worst food insecurity in the dry corridor.</div>
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"There are entire families who have nothing but corn and salt to eat. The situation is very serious," said Otero.</div>
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The government, which has been the target of complaints for failing to declare a national emergency for the drought, has continued to assist families in the area, providing them with medicine, food and water.</div>
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Ervin Barreda, president of ENACAL, Nicaragua's water and sanitation utility, said they send some 65 tanker trucks a day to the most critical areas, supplying some 2,000 families every day.</div>
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According to official data, in February 2016 there were 51,527 families in 34 localities who depended on highly vulnerable aquifers for their water supply.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">La Autoridad del <a href="http://www.prensa.com/tema/canal_de_panama/" target="_blank">Canal de Panamá</a> (ACP) informó que la mañana de este sábado 2 de abril de 2016 ocurrió un desbordamiento en la esclusa de Miraflores que duró unos 40 minutos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"La <a href="http://www.prensa.com/tema/acp_-autoridad_del_canal_de_panama/" target="_blank">ACP</a> informa que en el día de hoy, a las 7:11 a.m., hubo un desbordamiento sobre las compuertas de las esclusas de Miraflores. El evento duró un minuto y medio, en 40 minutos aproximadamente ya estaba normalizado y no provocó daños", afirmó la institución en un comunicado. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">La ACP agregó que el tránsito fue restablecido con prontitud y se mantiene normalmente. "Se identificó un daño en un componente eléctrico de las esclusas como posible causante del incidente", apuntó el informe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"Fue solo un desbordamiento breve. Se corrigió en un minuto y medio y se normalizó en 40 minutos. El Canal se mantiene en este momento 100% operativo", añadió un vocero autorizado de la institución. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.perfilessociopoliticos.com/?p=184" target="_blank">Administración del Canal de Panamá Vs. Medio Ambiente. Con el Dr. Donaldo Sousa</a></h1>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="meta-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><time datetime="2016-02-25T00:23:41+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Published on February 25, 2016</time> </span><span class="meta-category" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in <a href="http://www.perfilessociopoliticos.com/?cat=1" rel="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Uncategorized</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">ADMINISTRACION DEL CANAL DE PANAMA VS MEDIO AMBIENTE</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Entrevista exclusiva con el Dr. Donaldo Sousa</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Especialista en Medio Ambiente</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">El canal de Panamá es considerado una de las maravillas del mundo. Le ha costado sangre a través de nuestra historia a los panameños recuperar su administración y soberanía.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">El problema de la ACP no es solo de la presente administración, este problema viene de administraciones pasadas. Y que hoy, toda la basura de las administraciones y su pésima gestión esta saliendo a flote.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Entre estos problemas los presupuestos adquiridos para la construcción de la última esclusa el cual no reúne la calidad esperada y deseada en su infra estructura ya que tiene problemas de filtraciones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">En la actualidad aun no se determina con exactitud si está, quedo reparada del todo o solo por el momento.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Desde cuando la autoridad del canal de Panamá esta violando los Derechos Ambientales a través de las construcciones, de las esclusas, proyectos e infra estructuras?</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Desde hace varias administraciones pasadas, ya que son empresarios, comerciantes, quienes lo administran y ven todo como negocio sin tomar en cuenta que el ambiente es un recurso invaluable que se puede agotar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">La contaminación a nivel ambiental y la destrucción de nuestros recursos naturales han aumentado a gran escala en las 3 ultimas décadas, sin que nuestros gobiernos tomen medidas extremas para la preservación de nuestras riquezas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Hoy día vemos la cantidad de ríos, lagos y hasta lo que forma parte de nuestro territorio oceánico contaminado a gran escala.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">A eso, le agregamos la falta de conciencia ciudadana, el poco interés por la educación del tema y la falta de medidas legales ambientales que se deben aplicar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Una de las inconciencias mas grandes fue la aprobación de los culecos en el carnaval 2016, solo por política y mantener contentos a las masas que hoy día son los primeros en quejarse, cerrar calles, protestar cuando nuestros gobiernos por falta de capacidad para resolver este tipo de problemas de escases de agua no brinda ni respuestas, ni soluciones concretas efectivas para todos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">El agua es uno de los tres recursos mas importantes e invaluables de la humanidad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Para desarrollar proyectos alrededor del Canal de Panamá, hay que cumplir con una serie de normas ambientales, ya establecidas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Cada vez vemos a mas políticos sin planes de gobierno aspirando a puestos y al poder para lucrar, sin conocimiento científico y sin responsabilidad social, manipulando las leyes y creándolas a su beneficio.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Existen normas nacionales e internacionales que nos obligan a respetar el medioambiente, pero estas no se cumplen, las ignoran, las ocultan porque no la exponen para conocimiento publico.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Uno, no juega con los recursos del país, del Estado, El Canal de Panamá es una de las maravillas del mundo, tenemos que cuidarlo puesto que es de todos los panameños, el Canal de Panamá no pertenece a ningún gobierno, a ninguna administración, a nadie pudiente de ningún apellido, que recuerden que solo son administradores, todos formamos parte del Canal y nos costo históricamente recuperarlo, no esta en venta, no es una empresa privada, el agua no esta en venta, no es un negocio, y todos dependemos de ello. Señores el Karma social y político existe, creas o no, en él.</span></div>
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The Panama and Suez canals could be the next institutions to be affected by the ongoing crisis in the container shipping industry, according to new analysis from Africa ports analyst and monitoring service <a href="http://www.portoverview.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e75220; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">portoverview.com</a></div>
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The twin factors of cellular overcapacity and rock-bottom bunker costs have, over the past year, led carriers to divert multiple sailings away from the world’s two principal trade arteries and reroute vessels around the southern African cape.</div>
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Its six-month report for the second half of 2015 quoted analysis from SeaIntel (portoverviw.com co-owner), which showed that since the end of October 2015, 115 vessels deployed on Asia-USEC and Asia-North Europe services have made the back-haul trip to Asia by sailing round the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the canals despite using them on the headhaul legs.</div>
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Three of these vessels were deployed on Asia-North Europe services, while the remaining 112 were returning to Asia from the US east coast.</div>
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“Normally, 78 of those voyages would have gone through the Suez Canal, and as 53 of the voyages were in 2015, it would have meant that the number of container vessel passing the Suez Canal in 2015 would ‘only’ have decreased by 1.9% year-on-year, instead of the reported 2.8%. The other 37 vessels would normally have passed through the Panama Canal,” portoverview.com said.</div>
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“SeaIntel concludes that both the canals face a significant challenge in the current low bunker price, as it means that for many services it is cheaper to sail south of Africa on the backhaul than to use the canal routings,” it added.</div>
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“The canals have a particular disadvantage in regard to the USEC-Asia services, where it is currently economically viable for 14 out of 22 services to sail south of Africa on the backhaul, and it would probably be viable for almost all of them if intermediate port calls were dropped.”</div>
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It is even viable for sailings from North Europe to Asia to route via South Africa, “if the intermediate calls were dropped or switched to other services”, it said.</div>
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“Currently, the carriers are only using the south of Africa routing on the backhaul legs and retaining the transit time, but considering the financial situation of most carriers, and keeping in mind the relative ‘ease’ with which the carriers implemented both slow-steaming and super slow-steaming, going south of Africa on the head-haul is going to look very alluring for some carriers, if indeed they can re-route the cargo from the intermediate port calls.”</div>
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There is a further, compelling, reason for carriers to route via South Africa: in addition to avoiding canal transit fees, the elongated sailing route, which adds another week to transit times, could potentially “soak up” between 60-80 vessels, of which half would be ultra-large container vessels, and take out some of the industry overcapacity which is causing freight rate volatility.</div>
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