panama canal
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Climate Change Is Drying Up The Panama Canal
One of the world’s most important shipping routes is facing an extreme drought that threatens its ability to carry $US270 billion in cargo each year.
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Watch The Construction Of The Panama Canal Expansion In This Timelapse
Video: The timelapse gets a little hectic and sometimes you don’t know what the hell is going on (unless you’re well-versed in canal building), but it’s just crazy to see a strip of land get carved out and then built out with concrete. Like, we just really gashed the Earth and filled it up with…
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World’s Largest Container Ship Has Four Football Fields Of Deck Space
Samsung might be making waves at Mobile World Congress with the new Galaxy S6, but that’s nothing compared to the waves that will be produced by what the company’s Heavy Industries division is working on. It recently announced that it will be building the world’s largest container ship, about 400m long, for Japan’s Mitsui OSK…
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10 Of History’s Deadliest Construction Projects
The Panama Canal opened 100 years ago this month, one of the greatest engineering achievements in history. It was also one of the greatest sacrifices of human life in the name of construction, but tragically it was far from the most deadly project in modern history.