ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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to improve relations among South & Central America
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to provide a shorter route for trade
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to avoid ocean currents that could destroy ships
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to use all of South American ports for trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Panama Canal serves as a maritime shortcut that saves time and costs in transporting all kinds of goods. The 80-kilometer waterway communicates the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in one of the narrowest points of the American Continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ships sailing between the east and west coasts of the United States, which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America, shorten their voyage by about 8, 000 nautical miles (15, 000 km) by using the canal.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Panama Canal (PC) is the shortest operative route connecting maritime trade between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is also the shortest passage for gas cargoes from the Gulf of Mexico to Northern Asia (Rodrigue 2015).