Visiting a Modern Wonder: A Deep Dive Into the Panama Canal

Visiting a Modern Wonder: A Deep Dive Into the Panama Canal
View of the Panama Canal from a cruise ship. Solarisys/Shutterstock
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From the sky, the first thing you notice is the ships. So many of them. Lined up, as if they’re stalled, bumper to bumper, in a big city’s rush-hour traffic jam. Huge cargo vessels and their multicolored shipping crates, with wares from all over the world, piled up to the height of a high-rise.

On board: hundreds of millions of metric tons of brand-new vehicles and heaps of grains and cereals, along with loads of energy, coal, oil, and much more. The lifeblood of the world, waiting to pass from sea to sea.

Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
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Toronto-based writer Tim Johnson is always traveling in search of the next great story. Having visited 140 countries across all seven continents, he’s tracked lions on foot in Botswana, dug for dinosaur bones in Mongolia, and walked among a half-million penguins on South Georgia Island. He contributes to some of North America’s largest publications, including CNN Travel, Bloomberg, and The Globe and Mail.
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