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PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE
 Canals in the News
By Jim Shaw
The world’s two great inter-ocean canals, Panama and Suez, have been in the news lately, as has a proposed new inter-ocean canal across the country of Nicaragua in Central America. In Egypt a new by-pass lane connecting the Ballah and Deversoir bypasses, both built in the 1980s, has been completed under the project name “New Suez Canal.” This has given the sea level waterway the ability to handle two large convoys of about 45 ships each day, one northbound and the other southbound, rather than the traditional three smaller convoys… MORE |
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