new locks on Panama Canal

[Bluecat74]

We hope to cruise the Canal one day so this is an interesting article about the new locks in the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-panama-canal-20160624-snap-story.html

The expansion cost over 5 billion dollars!

 

[Judyat]

Yes there was also a great article in the NYTimes Wednesday I think. Lots of problems that may cause problems in the future. We were on the Wonder for it's last PC cruise through the locks in May. There had a great PC pilot on the trip who gave lectures almost everyday on it. Very Interesting. It costs cruise ship on average $400,000 to go through the locks. And we were told that it could easily go to 1 million with the new locks. So I wouldn't wait too long to do this cruise.

 

[bobbiwoz]

We saw the new locks up close on a Princess partial crossing shore excursion in January. Want to go through so we booked DCL's EBPC in October 2017!