Future of Panama Canal - and how it works

Future of Panama Canal - and how it works - by Patrick Dixon

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Future of Panama canal - how it works. Panama economy and regional role in Latin America / North America, Panama canal, Colon free zone, banking, service industries, travel, tourism and retirement homes. Panama is rapidly growing and has a significant role to play in the regional economy as a hub for trade and financial services. Potential to become a " Dubai " with growth driven by huge container port, enormous free zone (90% of exports), tourism and retired people buying first or second homes. Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, speaker at HSBC VIP lunch time conference event. (more)

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Thanks - glad you ... ( 7 meses por pjvdixon)

Thanks - glad you found the panama canal video helpful. Enjoy the others! Patrick Dixon

Cape Horn is a long ... ( 7 meses por pjvdixon)

Cape Horn is a long long way south into all kinds of bad weather and risks. The fresh water is just rain water which would anyway flow into the sea at some stage. Patrick Dixon

Yeah the fresh ... ( 6 meses por lancerz310)

Yeah the fresh water flows back to the seas and at the same time, they also have tanks to keep the same water being used in these locks

Very imformative, ... ( 6 meses por ExodusPaddy)

Very imformative, excellent job old boy. :)

its very useful... ... ( 6 meses por sumehkrishna)

its very useful...cheers Mr Dixon

Thanks - enjoy all ... ( 6 meses por pjvdixon)

Thanks - enjoy all the other videos and my site globalchange dot com

good job ( 5 meses por morphix007)

good job

Thank you for the ... ( 5 meses por Gvieto)

Thank you for the video of that amazing Panama Canal and the country that it is.

thank you for the ... ( 4 meses por elder205)

thank you for the video, i would love to import the cement for the canal project, let me know if you know any builders there in need of portland cement type 1, or e-mail me at globalexchangep at a.o.l. dot c.o.m. thank you again.

por favor en español ( 4 meses por antychy)

por favor en español

my wish is to see ... ( 3 meses por kekelia)

my wish is to see panama canal myself!

I'd heard of the ... ( 2 meses por monkeybike)

I'd heard of the Panama Canal before but never really knew the vast size of them! Thanks for the information.

do the tug trains ... ( 2 meses por cabhappygaz)

do the tug trains run on steel rails? and if they do how do they manage to climb the gradients? i would have thouht the wheels wouldn;t grip

As far as I ... ( 2 meses por pjvdixon)

As far as I rememember it is a rack and pinion - in other words the track has a third rail with teeth and this fits into a cog under the train for extra grip. Patrick Dixon

americans?? come ... ( 2 meses por piriyuyus)

americans?? come back??........i hope not.=(

Fascinating video, ... ( 2 meses por EASYTIGER10)

Fascinating video, but with it being titled "Future of Panama Canal", I thought you were going to explain about the expansion and the "Third Set of Locks Project". Still, very interesting, thankyou.

bit of a stupid ... ( 1 mese por limited06)

bit of a stupid question but I've never known why locks are needed, I know its to get boats higher up, does that mean one side of the canals is shallower? Why cant the ships just keep going along wiping out the need of the canals?

I'd imagine it's ... ( 3 semanas por BuffaloBill23)

I'd imagine it's because the lake has to be deep enough for the ships to travel through it and this means being higher than the ocean.

Rivers flow ... ( 3 semanas por pjvdixon)

Rivers flow downhill.... and are usually too shallow for boats. Answer: dam them up to make them deaper. You then create stretches of river which are relatively deep, slow moving, like long thin lakes, but at different heights. You have to create gates to allow boats to enter one stretch and leave another without emptying the upper stretch and flooding the lower one. By using two sets of gates (locks) you can create a small section between them which can fill and empty with water.

Locks enable boats ... ( 3 semanas por pjvdixon)

Locks enable boats to climb big hills up and down the other side, the "lift" for the boat happens as each lock floods, bringing the boat up to the level of the next stretch of water. But only works so long as small river somewhere feeding water into the highest point.

The canal is never ... ( 3 semanas por agnosis66)

The canal is never made on the river but next to it. So the river is just a source of water for a deeper but narrow canal. Canals are just easier to maintain and you can run them up the hill or through a tunnel in a hill. It is a great fun to drive a narrow boat through a picturesque England.

Life not that ... ( 2 semanas por pjvdixon)

Life not that simple as some rivers turned into canals.... Parts of Panama canal are in fact an existint river. OK technically you can say it is not a canal but a section of river made navigable with locks. Patrick

everytime they ... ( 2 semanas por floatncoffee)

everytime they tryed to dig deeper, storms would wash earth back into canal.. so they had to build locks...
watch "7 Wonders Of The Industrial World"
will tell you everything...great dvd

They had to build ... ( 2 semanas por pjvdixon)

They had to build locks so that ships could steam up the river and down the other side right across the country in navigable waters.

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