Panama Canal.

Panama Canal is an engineering marvel. It situated in Central America. This canal allows the water flow between Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. It is about 64 km in length. So, the ships can travel through the canal more quickly. As well as travellers can save time and money by transporting through this canal.

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Map of Panama Canal.

   Panama Canal consists of many artificial things throughout, there are lakes that are artificially created. In 1904 the United States began to building the canal. It was completed in 1914. At that time it was the largest project that has ever been undertaken by the U.S Government. This project has employed approximately ten thousands of workers , and the whole project priced about $350million.


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Panama Canal

The canal permits shippers of commercial goods. Such as grain, ore , and liquid along with; automobile  carriers, container ships, tankers, liquid gas carriers,  and also passenger liners. Moreover this canal is use to many naval activities.


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Because of traffic, US decided to expand the canal with three locks. The expanded Panama Canal opened on June 26, 2016. This expansion of Panama Canal was more efficient to reduce the traffics of travellers.




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