As a bridge to the world, the Panama Canal is not only a bridge for trade between Europe and the United States, but also a material communication between Asia and Europe and the United States......

The more ships pass through in a year, it means that everyone is good to sell, and it means that there are more people who have spare money and are willing to spend money, and vice versa, the world economy is depressed.

Tang Hai didn't know what the world economy was like this year, but now there were about 40 ships in the ship box with them, and the manager told him that there were more than a dozen batches of them a day, but the number and specifications of the ships were hard to say......

Because the cost of maintaining the canal is very expensive, Tang Hai paid a total of more than 70,000 US dollars in tolls.

Well, it is actually a bit one-sided to say that foreign countries do not pay tolls, but as long as you pass by, you will know what this toll represents.

The canal is roughly divided into three parts, the Pacific Panama Bay, the canal, and the Atlantic Caribbean Sea.

In order to protect the water level of the canal, it is necessary to have six boat boxes, three on each side of the two sea entrances, and the principle is the principle of a communicator. Each casing has a large number of casing slots.

When the ship entered the first 'Pacific box' here, the front and rear box doors were lowered, and the sides were basically made of reinforced concrete, in order to stabilize the water and soil, but there was water injected......

This water is fed into the lake.

It can be said that all the lakes, rivers, islands, forests, and rainforests in this vicinity are all key conservation projects in the world, and whoever plays a forest fire here, knows the importance of the Panama Canal or eats on this canal, will definitely want to kill him.

The water level of the 'Pacific Box' continued to rise, but it was not particularly high, and Tang Hai noticed that the water level had risen by about 15 meters in two hours. Immediately after driving a while, I opened the front box 'balance box' and drove into the stable water, and the distance of this section of water is about 400 meters. A wall intercepts the center. Import and export ships must pass one by one.

After entering the 'balance box', the ship dropped anchor and stopped. The giant whale beast was quietly behind the Red Lotus, and Tang Hai asked it to follow closely before the authorities let him bring the pet in......

The front and rear gates are closed again! The river continues to fill the balance area with water!

About half an hour later, the water level rose to the level of the canal! Open the third gate of the entrance! The boat passed this section of the road again, and then officially entered the Panama Canal! The back door slowly closes again!

This type of canal is called a cassette canal, and the Panama Canal is the largest cassette canal in the world.

The canal is 304 meters wide at its widest point and 152 meters at its narrowest point, which can accommodate 10,000-ton ships to pass through, which proves that the canal has reached the 'deep-water port' depth standard......

Tang Hai didn't even need to know what the water level of the entire waterway was. Just looking at the standard of the permit, you know that the depth is about 15 meters to 20 meters, and Xiao Tang has been with Jennifer all day long, and before he knows it, he has more knowledge than most fishermen.

This canal is not very long, even if you walk through the canal in a zigzag way, it will take eight hours to pass.

It was just a queue, and the ships had been waiting in line at the location since about 7 o'clock in the morning, but when they entered the Caribbean Sea, it was already more than 16 o'clock in the afternoon, and it took nine and a half hours to pass......

Storing and releasing water each time. All of them are a test of mechanical, human, and natural forces......

"It is worthy of the world's seven engineering wonders! It's hard to imagine that such a project was completed in those days! Xiao Tang stood at the bow of the boat, watching the morning glow gradually rise, and his heart was infinitely emotional.

Jennifer laughed and said, "Before there was no Panama Canal." If someone wants to ship some goods, from New York to Seattle, then they have to go all the way south. until you go around the southernmost tip of South America and go further north. It's a total of tens of thousands of miles, and if you want to sell things to Japan or China. At the speed of ships at that time, it was a real nightmare, not to mention that some European countries wanted to connect with Asia, so it was one of the two wonder canals. ”

"What about the other one?"

"Boss, you are stupid, Suez Canal! I know that! Lisa was feeding Big Ash and couldn't help but smile.

Big Ash also snorted suddenly, as if in response.

“……”

Jennifer gently flicked her hair, leaned on the railing and lowered her head, and faced Tang Hai with a clean face, Xiao Tang suddenly found that she looked a little like Sister Lamora, but she didn't look like Xu Jinjiang, the god of thunder!

"The other is the Suez Canal, if it is said that transporting goods from New York to Seattle needs to go around most of the Americas, then if there is no Suez Canal, transporting large quantities of goods from Libya to Ethiopia in Africa may have to run all over Africa, which makes people feel ......extremely embarrassed."

Speaking of this, Xiao Tang suddenly remembered something!

"I seem to have heard that the Suez Canal earns five times as much a year as the Panama Canal?"

"Well, that's about that number.

Geographically speaking, the biggest role of the modern Panama Canal is to connect the east and west parts of North America, while the Suez Canal is the best passage for Europe to go to the sea from the Mediterranean, enter the Indian Ocean, and then enter Asia, which is the most frequently used route in the world.

In terms of navigation conditions, after all, the Panama Canal is a canal built more than 100 years ago, no matter how powerful it is, it is limited, in order to allow ships to pass safely, Panama has even formulated a ship type standard, called 'Panamax ship', beyond the standard still has to take a long detour.

Just now we saw that those 65,000-ton ships are Panamax ships, limited to 294 meters in length, 32 meters in width, and 12 meters in draft, only they are the safest to pass through, and can be stably parked in the 'ship compartment'......

Not only is there a limit to the length and width of the draft, but also the height, and the bridge of the Americas that we just passed is only 62.5 meters high at low tide......

As a canal connecting the east and west banks of the world's largest hegemonic country, even aircraft carriers cannot pass through, which even the United States cannot bear......

The original design concept of the Suez Canal was on the Panama Canal, and it was expanded and modified, and it is normal for the Panama Canal to lose to the Suez Canal. ”

"Won't everything be solved as long as the Panama Canal is expanded?"

"Well, it's true that expansion can solve these problems, just as if the income of the whole population rises tenfold as if everyone can solve their own problems, but this is a difficult problem in itself......"

"Difficult question?"

"At first, Nicaragua passed by the canal, and the centuries-old ships brought Panama to the prosperity it has today, while neighbor Nicaragua could only endure poverty and watch. Although the people in Panama are still anti-American, the people in power are actually still serving us, but they are too greedy and think more for themselves, and now it is not only the world's leading tax haven, but also a money laundering haven. A Panama Papers leaked information about more than 214,000 companies, causing more shocks in the world than WikiLeaks, Snowden, **** and Cameron are also mired in the quagmire......"

"Didn't look at the sea?"

"He's poor."

Tang Hai was drunk......

"Now the United States has a lot of problems with Panama, and the expansion is constantly delayed because of one kind or another. Nicaragua missed the United States at the beginning, but this time it did not miss China, and the construction of Nicaragua's "Second Panama Canal" was launched...... It is tantamount to challenging the position of the United States in the shipping community, after all, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal are actually controlled by the United States...... But it's impossible to say now, and Russia wants to get involved...... I think that in the next 10 years, several Latin American countries in the vicinity will definitely be in turmoil......"

Tang Hai looked at the copycat model worker who was talking eloquently, and only felt how fortunate he was.

…… (To be continued.) )