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PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION PROGRAM 2010 Expansion Program Components 1 Post-Panamax Locks Construction of New Post-Panamax Locks on the Pacific and Atlantic Sides PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION PROGRAM 2010 Expansion Program Components 1 Post-Panamax Locks Construction of new Post-Panamax locks on the Pacific and Atlantic sides. The new locks complexes will have three chambers each with water-saving basins, a lateral filling and emptying system and rolling gates. 2 3 Pacific Access Channel 4 Excavation of the new Pacific Post-Panamax locks north access 5 channel. The project requires the dry excavation of approximately 49 million cubic meters of material along 6.1 kilometers. Executed in four different phases (PACs 1 – 4). Improvements to Navigational Channels Involve dredging of the existing navigation channels to enable the 6 safe navigation of Post-Panamax vessels through the expanded Canal. Improvements to Water Supply 8 Call for an increase of Gatun Lake’s maximum operating level by 45 7 centimeters to improve Canal water supply and draft dependability. 9 B A 10 E C G F 11 D A. Atlantic entrance deepening and widening B. Atlantic Post-Panamax locks C. Rising Gatun Lake's maximum 1. Culebra Cut 10. Pacific Post-Panamax operation level 2. PAC-1 locks D. Deepening and widening of Gatun 3. MEC-1 11. Pacific Entrance Lake and Culebra Cut navigational 4. PAC-3 Dredging channels 5. MEC-2 - Page 3 - E. Post-Panamax locks Pacific access 6. PAC-4 12. Atlantic Entrance channel 7. MEC-3 Dredging F. Pacific Post-Panamax locks 8. Miraflores Lake 13. Atlantic Post-Panamax G. Pacific entrance deepening and 9. PAC-2 locks widening 14. Gatun Lake 2 Projects By August 31, 2010, contracts for the amount of $4,190 million had already been awarded Excavation of the Pacific Access Channel Phase 1 This contract was awarded on July 17, 2007 to Panama – based Constructora Urbana S.A. (CUSA) for a total of B /. 41.1 million. It was completed during the first quarter of 2010 and its activities included the leveling of Paraiso Hill from its original 136 meters to 46 meters 12 above sea level. In achieving this, CUSA removed a total of 7.3 million cubic meters of material. The contract also included the cleaning of a total 146 hectares of firing ranges, known as MEC (munitions and explosives of concern) areas, and the relocation of 3.6 kilometers of the Borinquen road. September 2007 July 2009 Excavation of the Pacific Access Channel Phase 2 This contract was awarded on November 27, 2007 to Cilsa Panama - Minera Maria, for a total of B /. 25.5 million. It was completed during the first quarter of 2010. Activities under the contract involved the removal of 7.4 million cubic meters of material, the 3.5 – kilometer diversion of the Cocolí River and the relocation of 1.3 kilometers of the Borinquen road. Construction of this road began in May 2008. 13 14 The new Borinquen road. 3 View of the work under the third phase of the dry-excavation from the Centennial Bridge. Excavation of the Pacific Access Channel Dredging of the Pacific Entrance Phase 3 Navigational Channel The ACP awarded this contract on December 16, 2008, This contract was awarded on April 1, 2008 to Belgian to Constructora Meco S.A., for a total of $35.5 million. company Dredging International for a total of $177.5 This contract includes the excavation, removal and million. disposal of 8 million cubic meters of material, leveling of Paraiso Hill from 46 to 27.5 meters above sea level and The project consists of the widening of the Panama clearing of 190 hectares of MEC areas. Canal Pacific entrance navigational channel to a minimum 225 meters and deepening to 15.5 meters Excavation of the Pacific Access Channel below mean low water level, as well as partial construction of the Pacific Post-Panamax locks south Phase 4 access. A total of 8.7 million cubic meters of material will be removed under this project. The ACP awarded this contract on January 7, 2010 to consortium ICA-FCC-MECO, for a total of $267.8 million. PAC-4 includes the excavation of nearly 26 million cubic Dredging for the Deepening and meters of unclassified material; construction of the Widening of Gatun Lake and Deepening 2.3-kilometer long Borinquen dam that will separate the of Culebra Cut waters of Miraflores Lake from the new channel; and clearing of 80 hectares of MEC-contaminated areas. ACP personnel is responsible for dredging work for the deepening and widening of Gatun Lake, as well as the deepening of Culebra Cut, from which 20 million cubic meters of material will be removed. To complete this project, the ACP is using in-house and leased equipment. Dredging of the new Pacific Access Channel North Approach ACP awarded this contract to dredging company Jan De Nul n.v. on August 16, 2010, for a total of $54.5 million. The project entails dredging of the Pacific access channel north approach, which will link the new locks on Ongoing work on the Borinquen cofferdam. the Pacific to Culebra Cut. 4 Its activities include the excavation and dredging of nearly 4 million cubic meters of material, widening to 218 meters and deepening to 16.76 meters below mean lake water level along 1.6 kilometers on the area of the north access channel that will join the Third Set of Locks on the Pacific with Culebra Cut. Proposals for this contract's public bid were submitted on August 6, 2010. This is the last excavation and dredging contract to be awarded under the Canal Expansion Program. Dredging of the Gatun Lake North Access Channel Equipment deployed for dredging activities on the Atlantic side. On June 4, 2010, the ACP awarded Dredging International a $40 million contract to dredge a section which will require dredging of some 14.8 million cubic of the Gatun Lake north access channel. A total of 4.6 meters of material, and dry excavation of an additional million cubic meters of material will be removed from 812 thousand cubic meters of material. the area. An area of approximately 13.8 kilometers is being dredged and the existing Atlantic entrance navigation channel is being widened from its 198 meters to a minimum 225 meters, and the north access channel to the new locks on the Atlantic side to a minimum 218 meters. This contract includes the execution of an option for additional deepening up to 16.1 meters, which represents a volume of 2.3 million cubic meters of material, at a cost of $16,411,600. Both volumes include the 60-centimeter dredging tolerance. Raising Gatun Lake’s Maximum Operating Level April 2009 The project entails rising Gatun Lake’s maximum May 2010 operating level from 26.67 meters to 27.13 meters to increase water supply for the operation of the expanded Canal. Due to the increase in water level, it will be necessary to modify certain infrastructure, including hydraulic cylinders for the operation of the gates in Pedro Miguel and Gatun locks, Gatun Spillway gates and other ACP and third party facilities. The project is scheduled for completion by September 2013. Excavation work on De Lesseps Island. Dredging of the Canal Atlantic Entrance This contract was awarded to Belgian company Jan de Nul n.v. on September 25, 2009, for a total of $89.6 million. The work includes the deepening of the approach channel to 15.5 meters below mean low water level, Extension of Gatun Spillway gates 5 Third Set of Locks ACCESS CHANNEL LOCKS CONTROL HOUSE POST-PANAMAX VESSEL 427 m CHAMBERS WSB 1 WSB 2 WSB 3 55 m APPROACH STRUCTURE POST-PANAMAX LOCKS The new locks complexes will have three chambers each, water-saving basins on each level, a lateral filling and emptying system and rolling gates. WATER-SAVING SYSTEM Water-saving basin (WSB) technology is the most With three water-saving basins per efficient system to reduce the volume of water to be chamber, the new locks will save 60% of used by the new locks. The WSBs work as the water used in a lockage. Even water-damming structures located adjacent to the though the new locks have larger lock chambers and connected to them through chambers, they will use 7% less water culverts regulated by flow valves. per transit than the existing locks. 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 1 , 2 & 3 : Water is transferred by gravity to WSBs to be used on the following lockage. 4 & 5 : Once equalized, it moves to the next level and eventually to sea. 6 General Information on the New Locks EXISTING LOCKS NEW LOCKS The use of rolling gates will ease their maintenance. Post-panamax Panamax 12.4m 15.2m (39.5’) (50’) GATE OPERATIONS BUILDING GATE RECESSES ROLLING GATE 2 ROLLING GATE 1 GATES AND RECESSES The new locks will require 16 rolling-type gates that will This results in increased lockage capacity and flexibility operate from adjacent recesses located perpendicular to and provides for shorter and more cost-effective mainte- the lock chambers. Such gate configuration allows each nance times. recess to perform as a dry dock, which in turn enables servicing the gates on site without the need to remove In contrast, the miter gates that are currently in operation, them and therefore interrupt lock operations. do not have a recess, they need to be removed and trans- ported to a dry dock whenever overhaul work is required. This process requires the temporary interruption of lock operations. 7 Design and Construction of the Third Set of Locks After little over a year of intensive administrative and field work, efforts for the design and construction of the Third Set of Locks by Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A.
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