#Panama canal

[sixpenceee]

How cargo ships get into the Panama Canal | source

[mapsontheweb]

The Panama Canal, timeline and stats.

[meowmeowmeowmeow4x]

dark blue moon and the suffering sun MASTAPOST

Set in a mer AU in which Amity Park is Amity Island, a beach resort attracting all sorts of tourists, including the eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne and his son...

But tragedy strikes when a person or persons unknown spirit the young Damian away~~

And now one Danny Phantom is tasked with bringing the boy home, even if it means crossing an ocean and evading danger at every corner :3

prompt:

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8, chapter 9, chapter 10, chapter 11, chapter 12, chapter 13, chatper 14, chapter 15, chapter 16, chapter 17, chapter 18, chapter 19, chapter 20, chapter 21, chapter 22, chapter 23, chapter 24, chapter 25, chapter 26, chapter 27, chapter 28, chapter 29, chapter 30, chapter 31, chapter 32, chapter 33, chapter 34, chapter 35, chapter 36

TEll me what u enjoyed about each chapter as u read it :D

[northameicanblog]

Panama Canal, Panama: The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometre waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade. The Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan. It is one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. Wikipedia

[todays-problematic-ship]

Today's Problematic Shipping trend is the drought affecting the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a series of locks, artificial waterways, and lakes connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. Allowing ships to avoid sailing around South America, it is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. Some 40% of the world's cargo traffic passes through the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal is above sea level and is fed by rainwater. Additionally, operating the locks to raise and lower ships drains large amounts of fresh water from the canal into the ocean, on the order of several hundred thousand cubic metres per ship.

Due to a severe drought in Panama water levels in the canal are unusually low. This has reduced the number of ships passing through the canal. Furthermore, ships have had to carry as much as 40% less cargo to sit high enough in the water. Some ships have arrived too heavy and had to divert around South America.

Droughts like this are expected to become more common in the future as the climate changes and becomes hotter. Ricaurte Vasquez Morales, the canal's administrator, told CBS News "We are climate dependent so this issue of climate change to us is real."

[todaysdocument]

Open for Business

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

This illustration entitled, "Open for Business", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on August 15, 1914, shows Uncle Sam officially opening the Panama Canal.  Uncle Sam stands on the left side of a canal lock holding an American flag.  The water in front of the lock is labeled “Atlantic.”  On the right of the lock is a Teddy Bear holding a sign that reads “Welcome.”  The canal winds through the lock and then into hilly country.  At the other end it flows into water labeled “Pacific.”

[lonestarbattleship]

USS NEW MEXICO (BB-40), Flagship of the Pacific Fleet, passing through the Panama Canal. In the middle and upper west chamber of the Gatun locks. There are two other battleships at anchor in Gatun Lake, the background. She anchors in Gatun Lake while the other battleships make it through the other side of the canal and continue her transit the next day.

Photographed on July 25, 1919.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 75719, NH 76551

[warruins]

[lonestarflight]

A Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart (BuNo 137634) on an unknown ship in Panama canal. This Sea Dart was transported to the Maryland Aviation Historical Society and later became part of the Smithsonian Institution collection and is in storage at the Paul Garber Restoration Facility in Suitland, Maryland, awaiting restoration.

Note: "Hold For National Air Museum" painted on the side.

Date: August 1958

source

[moonsfireflies1993]

Why Panama is on Strike

From afar the Panama protests look like maybe a bunch of hypersensitive eco-fools or maybe like those people who think throwing paint on museums is making any difference instead of going directly to the companies. 

The reality is that Panama is protesting way more than just the “contract”. But, let's start with the contract. 

First, the company can own Panama by owning land property of the Panama state" inside or outside the 17,000 hectares from what was licensed.” This means that the ANATI (the National Authority of Land Administration) HAS to give it to the mining company with no setbacks.

The mine puts danger around 8 countries of Centroamerica with already reported 200 environmental damages

If the company wants to own private lands that are located inside or outside of hectares of the land that was licensed. The company can own the land and pay nothing in exchange, with no questions.

The contract was done with random permits without the proper process of acquisition. 

The contract promises to give Panama a very small quantity of payment to Panama when Panama already spends millions of dollars on the state. This means the company will give Panama less money than what Panama already invests in the country. So we are selling parts of Panama for less than what we already invested. 

Panama's government is allowing a foreign company to NOT pay 70% of their taxes during the first 10 years of copper extraction. 

The community of Donoso (where the mine is located) says they see tons of copper trucks going out every week and at the same time they complain they haven't seen improvements in their community. Ejm: railroads, electricity.

The company threatens with an international lawsuit of millions of dollars if Panama doesn't sign the contract. But if the company fails to comply with the contract, claims it will only pay 70 million dollars (Which is less than what they make extracting copper from the mine).

The contract has a clause that makes an actual law. The contract will reign according to the laws of Panama, except if a law looks inconsistent. In other words, if Panama makes a law that prohibits mining or a law that obliges them to pay taxes, because of their contract it will not apply at all because of that clause. 

The joke was that the president signed the contract in less than 3 hours.

Now, going to the other complaints of the population. Panama already has tons of issues and complaints that are not resolved. These issues have put the whole country on the verge of exploitation.

In September, there were massive protests in several parts of the country because of the sexual assault of the minor Madeleine at the hands of the National Juvenile Assembly. To keep it short. Every year the country makes a national juvenile assembly and this kid was from outside the city representing her district. She ate and drank with each political party and told a classmate to check on her because her water tasted like medicine. The kid hours later was attended by an ambulance with no notification of this to her mom. After this, the kid was behaving erratic and paranoid with a location on her phone that wasn't at the hotel in Panama where all the kids were. The other claims of the event were that all the minors had those dinners with the political parties representatives and on those tables were "Gringos" (foreign European or North American people). Why those kids were sharing tables with gringos in the first place?

When the kid arrived from the trip, she was in a catatonic state and with constant PTSD attacks. There's still no justice or any trace of who were the ones who committed those crimes, and even no accountability by the MEDUCA (The Ministry of Education of Panama).

It is not the first time since such an event happened at the hands of the state. In 2021, we had another state scandal when it was reported that one of the deputies ( Arquesio Arias) of the national assembly raped several women in the indigenous Kuna Yala region. Of course, you can imagine he was dismissed from the charges and when that announcement was published, one of the victims tried to kill herself and got into the ER.

Then there are the deputies who name some of their relatives to the state payroll and don't even work in the state but take tons and tons of money monthly. Meanwhile, the oncologico hospital keeps getting shortages of injections and gloves.

Panama is considered an international hub, one of the richest countries of Latin America and still we struggle with poverty and access to vital things for the population, why? Because people of the state and international companies steal the money, they sometimes build roads and bridges and the costs are higher to the price from the real costs of those constructions, for example, the Odebretch scandal. They charge lots of money, so they can bribe some of the money to both parties (the construction company and the one who is soliciting the construction.

But then again bribing is part of the panamenian culture as we say "juega vivo", bribing the police, the hospital, and the system is all about money and taking advantage of situations as they come even if it is illegal.

Is funny we are all fighting for water, Well my friends here where I am with the famous "Panama Canal" that provides us with most of our income as a nation while having lots of rivers and geographically we are surrounded by both the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, having all of that I get shortages and cuts of water for more than 6 times a month.

This week, the IDAAN (the company that provides water to the whole nation), has been making shortages all week. My family and I have been saving water tanks each day because of the shortages. I keep joking internally that I have a toxic relationship with the IDAAN since we kind of got used to this and the irony is that while the entire country struggles with the shortages they still sign a contract that will even affect the water flow to the Panama Canal in the long term.

The protests are not just because of the damage to nature is that the government sold us to a foreign Canadian company that has shareholders from the US and China to exploit us leaving us with nothing.

My biggest worry right now is that our current president is sick, the whole country knows he has cancer and during his last speeches, he has been looking like a corpse with now rumours of him leaving the country to intern himself to a hospital in Houston Texas. If he dies then probably the vice president has to take charge, but he has been missing since the protests and people HATE him. So yeah, Panama is on the brink of chaos and if that happens .. well

[famousinuniverse]

Panama Canal, Panama: The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometre waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade. Wikipedia

[voxsecundus]

Global Capital: who even cares about climate change it’s only going to kill “The Poors”

Panama Canal: *has restricted capacity due to lack of water*

Global Capital:

[mapsontheweb]

Sequence of locks and passages that a vessel passes through while transiting the Panama canal.

Panama canal goes from westward (Atlantic) to eastward into the Pacific.

[pattern-53-enfield]

Artwork from the Panama Defense Force's printed literature regarding Agenda 1990, laying out the nation's plan to take full control of the Panama Canal ("The Canal Is Ours!") among other goals. Shortly thereafter, the PDF would be disbanded by Manuel Noriega after failing to oust him.

[beatsforbrothels]

AKAI SOLO - Panama Canal (prod. iblss)

[lyinginbedmon]

BOAT STUCK!