巴拿马运河(英语介绍).ppt

1、Panama Canal,Lecturers: YU JIE Xue WU SHAN,It is located in Central American panama, across panama isthmus, and faces the west Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It connects the north and the South American continent . The canal is known as one of Seven Wonders of Engineering and one of

2、the World Bridge.,The geographical position,Construction background,Because of shipping between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans increasingly developed, the Panama Canal digging will bring many benefits. The canal make voyage New York to San Francisco shorten 16%, Liverpool to San Francisco voyag

3、e shorten 43%, while voyage New York to Sydney also shorten 28%. Communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific make from Europe to the Pacific sea voyage is much shorter.,Construction history,Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. He decided to let the dream come true.,1801,1880,

4、1889,1914,1980,Becoming an international navigation channel.,Problem,Hundreds of thousands of people was hired to dig the canal In the whole construction process, workers from all over the world including many Chinese workers pay the effort for the Panama Canal. Then the workers had to labor under e

5、xtremely poor conditions, leading to 70000panama and other national Labor death.,Solutions,drain the swamp,Construction Scale,Scope Due to the opening of the panama canal, between the Pacific and Atlantic distance shortened 5000 km to 10000 km. Now, each year about 12000 to 15000 ships ship from all over the world through the canal.,Cost France paid a $300 million firstly, and then the US paid a total of $375 million. A total of