Panama Canal

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She said, why do you think Trump renamed the Gulf of America and took jurisdiction? Why do you think he took over the Panama Canal? Why do you think he changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America? It's to take over jurisdiction.

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And I'll read here what Danielle Knows A Lot says, and then we'll talk about what Finger Lakes actually is.

She said, why do you think Trump renamed the Gulf of America and took jurisdiction? Why do you think he took over the Panama Canal? Why do you think he changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America? It's to take over jurisdiction.

Remember, the Finger Lake tattoos.

I'm sorry.

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Imagine an ocean-to-ocean shortcut so powerful it can rival the Panama Canal.

That's precisely what's happening at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's narrowest, least mountainous stretch of land.

Here, the government is developing a massive corridor of railways, highways and ports to link the Pacific port of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca with Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Coast in Veracruz.

Unfortunately, a revolution erupted a few years later.

The railway was militarized and then steadily collapsed into disrepair.

To close the chapter for good, the Americans opened the Panama Canal in 1914, and that was the end of the Mexican experiment.

The Panama Canal already does everything the Tehuantepec Corridor aims to do and more.

But this project isn't just for show.

Like the Panama Canal, Cambodia's new shortcut could change trade routes and shift regional power.

The canal, called Funan Techo, is designed to bypass the Vietnamese-controlled Mekong Delta, where most trade in the area passes through.

This would give Cambodia more control over its own exports, and exports it has.

Baker went on, But it adds another layer of complexity to supply chains already under pressure from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

Climate-related events including El Nino, restrictions affecting the Rhine and the Panama Canal, and shifting tariff regimes.

Judah Levan, head of research for online shipping marketplace Freytos, said at ports such as Genoa, where vessels are already waiting one to two days for a slot, the strike could exacerbate congestion.

Ed Anderson,

But this time, things didn't go according to plan.

The Panama Canal was in fact much more difficult to dig than the Suez Canal.

In Egypt, the ground was sand and soft earth.

He committed a technical error.

He wanted to do the Panama Canal as he had done the Suez Canal, but he hadn't taken into account the mountain that was in the middle, so it wasn't possible.

As well as the technical problems, the workers had to cope with tropical rain and yellow fever.

Thousands were dying.

The exhibition lasted six months and was an enormous success, two million visitors.

Which artificial waterway opened in 1914 cutting across Central America so ships wouldn't have to sail all the way around the stormy tip of South America?

The Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal is correct.

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Yep, and so ships traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal will actually travel from northwest to southeast due to the curve of the isthmus of Panama, which is kind of fun.

I like that word, isthmus.

That's a good word.

Hot dang.

So with that being the case, you know, every – time you have a ship that's not able to move for whatever reason whether it's a storm or you have a labor disruption you have more ships backing up trying to get and get into the anchorage so they can try to get into the port itself um now you have freight disruption on an epic scale so a two-day strike in long beach can sometimes take up to a month to clear the backlog in ships, which is why the East Coast loves when Long Beach goes on strike because you typically have somewhere around 15 to 20 routes that end up switching from going to a West Coast port who end up coming around the East Coast ports through the Panama Canal to save money instead of dropping in California.

They'll go to someplace like Savannah or New Jersey.

So

Of course, El Nino, we haven't really spoken about El Nino, is really set to impact high harvest in Southeast Asia, the palm harvest, for example.

Panama Canal may see water levels dropping because of droughts created by El Niño.

Europe, of course, having very erratic weather conditions lately, very dry summers.

Rhine, of course, is a very good example of that.