Original news was published on 26 January, 2015
The first gate for the new locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal expansion project has been installed.
The steel rolling gate weighed 2,300 tons and measured 57.6 meters long, 8 meters wide and 22.28 meters high. It was carried to the installation site on a SPMTs with more than 400 wheels apiece, the Panama Canal Authority said in a statement.
The gate, is the first of eight gates that will be installed in the new locks on the Pacific side of the waterway. The installation of the gates began in December 2014 at the Atlantic side, where two gates of its eight gates have been installed.
The latest gate installation brings completion of the project to 85 percent.
