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O'Malley announces port upgrade...so that it can unload the super-sized containerships that are expected to become a growing sector of maritime commerce after a widened Panama Canal opens in 2014. "It's a great deal," said Bentley, 85, a maritime industry consultant who added... In this article: Martin O'Malley, Baltimore, Maryland, and Panama Canal |
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The Washington Post | 1 day ago
Md. agrees to 50-year lease of state port facilities
...container ships. The huge vessels are to begin reaching the East Coast from Asia in 2014, after completion of a project to widen the Panama Canal. Construction of the berth and cargo cranes is expected to create 1,000 jobs. An additional...
In this article: Maryland, Martin O'Malley, Michael E. Busch, E mail, and University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Baltimore Sun | 1 day ago
Port of Baltimore set to receive multi-million-dollar upgrade
Public-private partnership would prepare port for super-size ships once Panama Canal is widened The state has been looking for a partner to dig a 50-foot-deep birth at Seagirt Marine Terminal for super-large ships once the Panama Canal is...
In this article: Baltimore, Asia, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, and Martin O'Malley
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Port of Baltimore to get multi-million-dollar upgrade
Public-private partnership would prepare port for super-size ships once Panama Canal is widened Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to announce today that a company will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the port of Baltimore...
In this article: Baltimore, Martin O'Malley, Asia, and Maryland Transportation Authority Police
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
O'Malley to announce major port partnership, tout jobs
...include 3,000 one-time construction positions to build a new 50-foot berth to accommodate larger ships expected to utilize the port after the Panama Canal is widened in 2014. An additional 2,700 jobs are related to continuing operations at the...
In this article: Martin O'Malley, Baltimore, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia
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CNN | 3 days ago
Army Corps liable for Katrina flooding, court rules
...and poor engineering are not policy, and clearly the Corps engaged in such activities." "This is not the Corps that built the Panama Canal," said Joe Bruno, another plaintiffs' attorney. "This is a different Corps. This is a Corps that's...
In this article: Hurricane Katrina, Plaintiff, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, National Environmental Policy Act, and Lower Ninth Ward
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Reuters | 4 days ago
RPT-FEATURE-Panama remakes its famous canal for giant ships
One of the world's greatest engineering marvels is being overhauled as work crews blast through hills to widen and deepen the Panama Canal to make room for a new generation of mega-ships. Defying the world economic downturn, Panama is...
In this article: Panama, United States, Caribbean, Malaria, Yellow fever, Suez Canal, and Asia
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Telegraph.co.uk - Top ten stories | 4 days ago
WWII Japanese submarines designed to carry bomber aircraft
...diseases on cities on the West coast of America. When the bacteriological weapons were not ready in time, the target switched to the Panama Canal. Japan surrendered before the attack could be carried out. Five submarines were captured by...
In this article: World War II, National Geographic Channel, Hawaii, US, USS Cabezon, Dengue fever, Cholera, Typhus, and University of Hawaii-Manoa
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The Panama Canal is a ship canal which joins the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific ocean. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America. A ship sailing from New York to San Francisco via the canal travels 9,500 km (6,000 mi), well under half the 22,500 km (14,000 mi) route around Cape Horn.
Although the concept of a canal near Panama dates back to the early 16th century, the first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership. After this attempt failed and 21,900 workers died, the project of building a canal was attempted and completed by the United States in the early 1900s, with the canal opening in 1914. The building of the 77 km (48 mi) canal was plagued by problems, including disease (particularly malaria and yellow fever) and landslides. By the time the canal was completed, a total of 27,500 workmen are estimated to have died in the French and American efforts.
While the Pacific Ocean is west of the isthmus and the Atlantic to the east, the journey through the canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic is one from southeast to northwest. This is a result of the isthmus's "curving back on itself" in the region of the canal. The Bridge of the Americas at the Pacific end is about a third of a degree of longitude east of the end near Colon on the Atlantic.
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