Building the Canal of the 21st Century
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The Panama Canal revolutionized sea transport from the outset: it linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the first time, permitting significant time-savings, as ships no longer had to go around South America and face the rough waters of Cape Horn. With a set of new locks it is currently being expanded to meet the needs of modern ship traffic. Leica Geosystems is supplying surveying instruments to the project awardee at one of the greatest civil engineering works ever undertaken.
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