Starts countdown to delivery Expanded Canal

Two months goal put the Consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal to perform the necessary tests prior to the opening of the Expanded Canal scheduled for June this year.

More than 2,000 tests on both the Pacific and Caribbean areas project, involving gates, valves, electrical and control.

Similarly, the optimization of the work shall be verified by navigation tests, scheduled for the second week of May with a ship chartered by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP).

Navigation tests will be the last before handing over the building to the ACP, which calculates the new route put into operation during the second half of the year.

Recently, the consortium conducted the final tests, confirming that repairs on the hinges on the new locks work.

However, GUPC also runs development work, gardening and integration of electrical and mechanical-hydraulic control with buildings elements.

Meanwhile, ACP advances the training program of pilots and tugboat captains in charge of operating the expanded Canal.

According to the company, the expansion project has a total advance of 96%.