The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering feats of all time, is being expanded to cope with the massive demand and increasing size of ships. On one occasion a US ship, despite painstaking measurements in advance, expanded in the heat and stuck fast – and when you look at TopFoto’s superb gallery on the Canal you can see why.
Greenpeace boats, nuclear waste transporters, pleasure cruises, private yachts and aircraft carriers… the Panama Canal sees them all.
2007: 30 years since the Panama Canal Treaty (7 September 1977)
2007: 100 years since George Washington Goethals appointed Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal
2008: 80 years since Richard Halliburton swam the Panama Canal
2009: 10 years since Panama took over the Canal
2014: 100 years since the opening of the Panama Canal
Pictures of The Panama Canal - The Panama Canal by Jon Mitchell
Then and Now
RV10333-4 - With room to spare in the 1930s ©Roger-Viollet / TopFoto
0483479 - A tight squeeze for a modern tanker ©Colin Jones / TopFoto