A wider path between the seas

It cost 25,000 lives to build and revolutionized shipping, but now Panama’s marvel of engineering is too small for a new generation of mighty ships and tankers. Six years after gaining sole control from the United States of the man-made marvel the world once dubbed the “path between the seas,” the government of Panama has concluded that the 51-mile canal which bears the tiny nation’s name is simply too narrow to cope with today’s new generation of mighty cargo ships.