Panama Canal expansion will double present capacity

When it opens in early 2015, a deeper, wider Panama Canal with two new flights of triple locks, one at each ocean entrance, will double existing canal capacity and facilitate the passage of so-called post-Panamax ships through the 80 km (51-mile) waterway. These new cargo leviathans — the length of an aircraft carrier and the height of a 14-storey building — are capable of carrying up to 12,000 containers or about a million flat-screen TVs all with a crew of just a dozen men.

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