Panama Canal Widening Project Reported to Be More Than 60 Percent Finished

The project was set back by six months after ACP rejected concrete mixes for the lock structure in 2011 because they were not up to the 100-year standard indicated in the contract.

Crews this month wheeled ashore the first four of the 16 gates"”each the size of a 10-story building"”for the canal's new locks. Mounted on self-propelled motorized wheel transporters, each of the 3,100-ton gates was off-loaded onto a temporary dock on the Atlantic side of the waterway, not far from the new locks that will be their permanent home.

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