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The Panama Canal allows ships to pass through south America to Central America or vice versa.
Panama. It moves ships across Panama.
Panama Canal Locks which facilitates the crossing of the canal itself by ships .
The Panama Canal opened in 1914.
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The Panama canal made it so ships did not have to go all they around South America to get to the targeted area.
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The country is Panama and the canal is the Panama Canal.
U.S. ships were tired of taking the long way to get to a certain place so they decided to build the panama canal :)
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. It was created to shorten trips of ships.
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In fact oil tankers ARE allowed to use the Panama Canal, just like other ships.However no modern oil tanker is narrow enough to fit in the current Panama Canal, which was built for ships of more than 100 years ago. Ships intended to use the Panama Canal are deliberately designed to be narrow enough to fit.