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How much did the Panama Canal expansion cost?
New, larger locks for Neopanamax-class ships
💡 Two new sets of locks for ships up to 366 m long, built over about nine years.
Answer
€4.75B
€4,750,000,000 · Construction cost · 2016
The new locks save water with retention basins and let ships almost three times larger pass through.
US$5.25B, converted at the 2016 rate.
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