Description of
Projects
It is part of Panama City’s Traffic Reorganization Plan which aims
to speed up traffic and reorganize the capital city’s thoroughfare
network, improving the connections between the north and south
corridors. Both projects are being built in the centre of the city, in
four of its major avenue intersections.
This project involves the excavation of a new channel in the Pa-
nama Canal linking the new locks with the existing Gaillard Cut,
the narrowest stretch of the Panama Canal located near the en-
trance to the canal on the Pacific Ocean. The project entails the
construction of a 3.7 kilometre, 200 metre wide channel leading
to the locks in the Pacific. In includes the excavation, transport,
and dumping of 27 million cubic metres of rocks in addition to the
access roads and the water-drainage channels, the creation of
deposits, and the cleaning of an approximately 80 hectare target
range.
Vía Brazil Corridor, Sections I and II
The Pacific PAC 4 Access Channel
