The Panama Canal expansion project (Spanish: ampliación del Canal de Panamá), also called the Third Set of Locks Project, doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal by adding a new traffic lane, enabling more ships to transit the waterway, and increasing the width and depth of the lanes and locks, allowing larger ships to pass.

2016年6月7日 · The locks are 180 feet wide and 1,400 feet long, big enough to accommodate so-called New Panamax-class vessels that are seen as the future of global shipping. Ships up to 160 feet wide with a draft of about 50 feet can now fit in the locks.

The Panama Canal locks (Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and lowers them down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage.

2016年6月26日 · The new locks are 180 feet wide and 1,400 feet long, big enough to accommodate New Panamax-class vessels that are seen as the future of global shipping. Those ships can reach 1,200 feet long — more than three football fields — and are up to 160 feet wide.

Modern ships – known as ‘Post-Panamax’ to mark the start of a new era in shipping, exceeding the limits of the previous canal – cross the Panamanian isthmus using a system of locks delimited by enormous rolling gates designed and built in Italy. The movement of locks lifts ships a height of 27 m above sea level to Gatun Lake, the world ...

2024年8月6日 · The Panama Canal announced through an Advisory to Shipping, that effective immediately, the maximum authorized draft allowed for vessels transiting the Neopanamax Locks will be 49.0 feet (14.94 m), based on the present and projected level of Gatun Lake for the upcoming weeks.

2021年6月14日 · Panama Canal Extends Maximum Length Overall and Increases Draft for Neopanamax Locks. The waterway begins to accommodate vessels up to 370.33 meters in maximum length overall and announces a 15.24-meter (50-foot) draft ahead of the expansion’s fifth anniversary.

2021年6月21日 · Five years ago, the Panama Canal opened the Neopanamax Locks, creating a third lane for traffic at the waterway. The Expanded Canal doubled the waterway’s capacity, attracting new markets and opening up world trade.

The new locks are longer, deeper, and wider, with the ability to transport ships three times larger than the existing locks. There’s a single lane of traffic that had to meet a 99.6 percent reliability, while also meeting a design requirement of 100 years.

2018年1月15日 · Opening a direct passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Panama Canal was a game changer for maritime trade 104 years ago. More than one year after the completion of its expansion project, the canal is now open …