Devices to raise and lower ships as they pass between oceans
Sequence of locks and passages that a vessel passes through while transiting the Panama Canal.
The Gatun Locks, looking north towards the Atlantic Ocean.
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 down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. The total length of the lock structures, including the approach walls, is over 1.9 miles (3 km). The locks were one of the greatest engineering works ever to be undertaken when they opened in 1914. No other concrete construction of comparable size was undertaken until the Hoover Dam, in the 1930s.
There are two independent transit lanes, since each lock is built double. The size of the original locks limits the maximum size of ships that can transit the canal; this size is known as Panamax. Construction on the Panama Canal expansion project, which included a third set of locks, began in September 2007, finished by May 2016[1] and began commercial operation on June 26, 2016. The new locks allow transit of larger, New Panamax ships, which have a greater cargo capacity than the previous locks were capable of handling.[2]
^"Panama Canal Expansion Project report - October 2012" (PDF). Panama Canal Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2013.
^"Panama Canal Opens $5B Locks, Bullish Despite Shipping Woes". The Associated Press. June 26, 2016. Retrieved June 26, 2016 – via The New York Times.
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