It is more than 90 years old, and the Panama Canal is showing its age. It is clogged with traffic, and too narrow to take a rising number of the world's ships. So Panama's government wants to widen the canal. It has promised to consult Panamanians before doing so-and their approval cannot be taken for granted. After five years and more than 120 technical studies, the Panama Canal Authority was expected to release its master plan, after several delays, on April 20th. This calls for building a new series of wider and deeper locks. The project would cost at least $5 billion and take seven years.
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