Video: Panama Canal Expansion Construction in 2 Minute Time-Lapse – gCaptain

It’s been nearly nine years and more than $5 billion in the making, but the Panama Canal Expansion is finally open.

To mark the occasion, the people over at EarthCam have released a 5-year time-lapse video showing construction of the Third Set of Locks (aka the new “Neopanamax” locks) at the center of the historic project. The time-lapse used EarthCam’s robotic construction cameras capturing HD images from more than 140 angles and resulting in over a terabyte of image data that was then hand-edited down to this 2 minute video.

Video: Panama Canal Expansion Construction in 2 Minute Time-Lapse

The largest of its kind since the Canal’s original construction, the $5.25 billion expansion will allow ships more than 2.5 times the size of the current limit to pass through the waterway, effectively doubling its capacity and opening up new markets for shipping lines, American farmers, and producers of liquefied natural gas, a new segment altogether for the Canal.

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