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Panama Canal expansion will be completed in 2015 “no matter what”, says minister

Thursday, January 23rd 2014 - 21:26 UTC
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Work to enlarge the Panama Canal will be completed in 2015 no matter what, Panamanian Finance Minister Frank De Lima said on Wednesday, despite the continuing feud over cost overruns with contractor GUPC. The Panama Canal authority “has strongly affirmed that the canal would be complete in 2015, with or without” the GUPC consortium, the minister told the media on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read full article

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  • Briton

    can we remind you of this statement in 2016..lol

    Jan 24th, 2014 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    You just know it's six of one and half a dozen of the other!

    Cement quality? What's that the Spanish builder will have said!

    Geology details, what geology details, it's been the same for the last 99 years the Canal Authority will have said!

    Meanwhile the Han are going to cut a brand new canal with all the trimmings that will make this thing obsolete before it’s “finished”, if it ever is.

    I see brotherly love is missing between these two.

    Ha, ha, ha.

    Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • aussie sunshine

    *2 Ohhh!! the envy!! At least the Spaniards are building it and not The Brits who are too busy building dikes in Britain before Britain dissapears in flood waters....

    Jan 28th, 2014 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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