Spent a day on the tourist route visiting the panama canal. It truly is an incredible feat……It also brings in tons of $$$ for the economy here.
Im not sure for medium and large boats (the more typical) but for small boats like this old al capone owned brown and blue now tourist boat, the cost to cross would be $75k!
I think the big boats are up in the 500-1 mil range.
cool bridge over it
US pulled out of running the canal and major military presence here in 2000, we just up and left and gave everything over to panama…took them a couple years to figure everything out but they have and are absolutely raking in the cash…. There is a third lock to be open soon.
The water drains and rises at 300mil gallons per minute.10,000 people work at canal.
It’s the safest part of the city.
Took 9 years to build and the city built up at the same time to accommodate the workers.
First person ever that paid to cross when it opened back in 1914.…swam it(no boat)
Absolutely mind boggling to see it work
jack
