{"id":13046,"date":"2015-03-30T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2015-03-30T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:33:24","slug":"panama-canal-sets-sights-on-new-17-billion-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panama-canal-sets-sights-on-new-17-billion-expansion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Canal sets sights on new $17 billion expansion project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/canal3locks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13047\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/canal3locks1.jpg\" alt=\"canal3locks\" width=\"619\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/canal3locks1.jpg 619w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/canal3locks1-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As it enters the final stretch of a massive expansion, the Panama Canal Authority is setting its sights on an even more ambitious project worth up to $17 billion that would allow it to handle the world&#8217;s biggest ships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workers are now installing giant, 22-story lock gates to accommodate larger &#8220;Post-Panamax&#8221; ships through the Canal, one of the world&#8217;s busiest maritime routes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project involves building a third set of locks on the Canal. It is being headed by Italy&#8217;s Salini Impregilo and Spain&#8217;s Sacyr, and should open on April 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Jorge Quijano, who leads the Panama Canal Authority, is already looking beyond this project to a fourth set of locks which would serve a new generation of even bigger ships that can carry 20,000 containers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Looking at our geology and the experience we gained with this current expansion, we estimate it&#8217;s a project that could cost between $16 billion and $17 billion,&#8221; he told Reuters, adding it would allow Panama to compete head-to-head with Egypt&#8217;s Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Panama Canal Authority has long talked about building a fourth set of locks but Quijano said it is now for the first time seriously studying the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says container ship traffic through the Canal has risen around 3 to 4 percent in the last few months due to a backlog at U.S. West Coast ports, which were hit by a now-settled labor dispute disrupting trans-Pacific trade..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has had a positive impact for us, but the Suez Canal has been the big winner because they can handle the Post-Panamax ships,&#8221; Quijano said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the Canal goes ahead with the project, Quijano says it could be completed within 15 years and that financing options include issuing bonds and using the Canal&#8217;s own revenues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/china\" rel=\"nofollow\">China<\/a> Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC), a subsidiary of state-owned China Communications Construction Co Ltd, has voiced interest in building and financing a fourth set of locks in Panama, and Quijano said company officials met with him this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further north in Nicaragua, a little-known Chinese businessman has vowed to build a $50 billion canal across the country to rival Panama&#8217;s, although some industry experts are deeply skeptical, pointing to the high costs, environmental challenges and the firm&#8217;s lack of experience in such projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Panama Canal&#8217;s current expansion plan was originally set at $5.25 billion but the costs rose and the administrator became locked in a dispute with building consortium Grupo Unidos Por el Canal (GUPC), which built the third set of locks. Quijano said GUPC has submitted claims totaling $2.3 billion to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giuseppe Quarta, GUPC&#8217;s CEO, says he is unsure whether its members would be interested in bidding to build a fourth set of locks, saying the Canal Authority has repeatedly rejected its claims in the dispute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quijano says the Canal has already lost around $400 million in revenue because of project delays caused by the spat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The giant new locks sit alongside those of the existing Panama Canal and include a complex reservoir system that will empty and fill the lock chambers using gravity rather than pumps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sections of the 100-year-old waterway are being dredged to take ships with a greater draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any new project to build a fourth set of locks will live or die by trade flows, says Maersk Line, a unit of conglomerate A.P. 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It is a major customer of the Panama Canal, crossing it 300 to 350 times a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The big question for any future expansion of the Panama Canal is will trade growth sustain that extra investment,&#8221; said Robbert Jan van Trooijen, Maersk Line&#8217;s CEO for Latin America and the Caribbean. &#8220;For me, to see any of those (mega) ships coming near Latin America, that&#8217;s the very distant future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-headline\"><span id=\"articleText\"><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it enters the final stretch of a massive expansion, the Panama Canal Authority is setting its 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