Even though the start of operation of the expanded Panama Canal is two years away, canal officials say they are studying the construction of a fourth set of new locks, parallel to the third set of locks presently under construction.
“We are looking at the demand and demand is what [will] rule [the project],” Panama Canal Authority (ACP) executive vice president for marketing and business development Rodolfo Sabonge told the AAPA’s XXII Latin American ports congress held in Bogota, Colombia. The studies underway will determine what would be the dimensions of the future locks and when to begin building them, he said.