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Panama Canal Expansion In Final Stages,
by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Moving ahead with its expansion program, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has
announced that it will soon solicit bids for the fourth and last dry excavation
project. The project will be the final phase in creating a critical access channel
that will link the new Pacific locks with the Canal's existing Gaillard Cut (the
narrowest stretch of the Panama Canal).
As the second most significant contract of the Expansion Program, the scope
of work will include the excavation, removal and disposal of approximately 27
million cubic meters of non-classified material. Moreover, the solicitation
will call for the installation of an approximately 1.8-kilometer long backfilled
cellular cofferdam water barrier and the construction of a 2.8-kilometer long
impervious clay core-rock fill dam.
Although the widening of the canal is nearing its final stages, the final stage
of the project will include:
constructing access roads;
managing disposal site areas
installing a dewateringsystem to remove surface and underground water
implementing and managing environmental controls
clearing unexploded ordnances (UXOs) - remnants from former U.S. military training
facilities in the Canal area, and
other miscellaneous tasks.
"The release of the fourth and final dry excavation RFP is, without a
doubt, a key milestone in this program. The Canal expansion continues to move
on track, on budget and with steady progress," said ACP Executive Vice
President of Engineering and Program Management Jorge L. Quijano. "The
Expansion Program underscores the ACP's commitment to long-term growth and investment
for our customers, and we look forward to receiving interest from the best firms
for this job."
Expansion will build a new lane of traffic along the Panama Canal through the
construction of a new set of locks that will double capacity and allow more
traffic and longer, wider ships.
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