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Ports & Dredging 167
A major dredging project
The IHC-built TSHD BARENT ZANEN dredging in the Pacific side entrance channel of the canal
130 million cubic meters to be moved for a deepened and widened Panama canal that can pass larger vessels
25 October 2006, in a referendum, the Panamanian population approved of its government’s proposal to spend 5.25 billion US Dollars on expanding the canal.
This 80km long canal is regarded as one of the world’s main engineering achievements and its creation really speaks to the imagination. Around 1880, at the age of 74, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the architect of the Suez Canal, started his attempt at his second canal. This attempt for a sea level canal failed, fell in the hands of promoters and speculators, and ten years later the French company filed for bankruptcy. Thousands of people had perished during the effort due to diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
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A major dredging project
130 million cubic meters to be moved for a deepened and widened Panama canal that can pass larger vessels
P&D 167, year: 2007, pages: 10 - 13
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