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The New Panama Canal

Jim Riley

29th March 2015

What a stunning feat of engineering. The original Panama Canal handles approximately 3% of global shipping volumes. However, it is not wide enough for the latest mega-tankers. So Panama has built a much wider, new canal. In the process it is has completed the world's biggest engineering project. A quite stunning example of infrastructure investment to support economic development.

Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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