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    challenging man-made resources was completed. The Panama Canal is an extraordinary part of world history because it links two oceans and eliminates the hazardous voyage of ship travel around the tip of South America. This exceedingly difficult engineering project is even known to be one of the seven wonders of the industrial world. The canal is still beneficial today, and it will always be an aid to the world. Although the building of the Panama Canal took years of planning, caused disease and

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    motivation to make a shortcut, and in 1848 the United States built the trans-Panama railroad to satisfy this need (“Panama, city, Panama”). The railroad required a ship to dock and unload the cargo, and then another ship to

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    The Building of the Panama Canal In order to get to the Pacific Ocean from the east coast of the United States you must either, go around Canada, go around South America, or go all the way around the world. These were the only ways to get to the Pacific from the Atlantic Ocean until 1914. The most common way the American navy would get there was around South America. In many instances when there was problems on the west or east coast that needed naval intervention it took a significant amount

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    Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term U.S. The reason why there a passageway across the panama is because of spain they possibility build a canal . the U.S. was also interested in building a interoceanic canal which in 1887 the U.S. was regiment t o sent a survey nicaragua as a possible for the canal.then in 1889 the maritime canal company was ask to build a canal either in nicaragua or panama they choose nicaragua and so the construction was begun.by 1893 maritim canal company lost it funding

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    The Panama Canal was originally started back in the 1880s by the French and is considered by some to be the 8th Wonder of the World. Construction may have started in the 1880s, but the idea for such a canal started long before that time. Surveying for the canal started all the way back in the 1550s. The idea for such a canal came from how inconvenient travel and trade was without the canal. Ships used to have to travel all the way around the southern tip of South America to travel between the Atlantic

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    Panama into two sections and contributed little to the Panamanian economy. The reason for this being is that those who lived within the Canal Zone, a five-mile-wide strip on either side of the canal, belonging to the U.S. and were either U.S. citizens or were West Indians working for the canal. Furthermore, the canal is 48 miles long and with a width of 10 miles, with the U.S. government having permission to acquire more land, the people of Panama are losing a vast strip of land which could be used

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    Introduction: In this assignment I will first explain the Panama Canal modernization and then I will discuss about the industry experts/forecasters prediction about its impact on east and west coast of U.S. followed by the detailed analysis to evaluate the accuracy of the prediction. Furthermore, based on the analysis, I will present my opinion for rejecting or agreeing with the forecaster’s prediction of the panama canal’s positive impact on intermodal traffic market share of east coast ports and

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    At last, the completion of the Panama Canal provided a shorter sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean for trading countries all over the world. This occasion revolutionized sea travel and was consequently a widely documented and publicized event. Countless images and articles were created throughout the early twentieth century, which magnified the importance of this project. This collection of primary sources captures the significance of the Panama Canal for the American people

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    the original chief engineer John Wallace resigned and a railroad specialist by the name of John Stevens took the reins and explained to President Roosevelt that a lock canal would be best due to the threat of landslides(history). In order for the Panama Canal to be as efficient as possible, there needed to be multiple sets of locks that raised and lowered the ships on both ends of the canal due to the man-made lake that is located in the center of the canal being about 26 meters higher than the oceans

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    The Panama Canal Assuredly the Panama Canal, If you didn’t know already, was one of the most economic and socialized marvels of its time. It was, at first, attempted by the French in the late 1800s, but they were unable to carry out the canal because of financial problems. Not only that, but yellow fever and malaria flooded the campgrounds with the aid of mosquitoes, which made the workforce unbalanced (Avery). Then in 1904, the Americans were to take over under the leadership and guidance of President

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