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Giant cargo ship used to test expanded Panama Canal
Published Sun, Jun 12, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Panama
PANAMA has sent a giant Neopanamax-class cargo ship through its canal to test expansion work costing billions of dollars and whose official opening is to be marked with a ceremony later this month.
"The tests are going very, very well. We're pleased," Giuseppe Quarta, head of the Grupos Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) consortium behind the nine-year expansion project, told reporters on Thursday.
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