Dominics. Drought Saps The Panama canal, Distributing global trade crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Panama Canal, an engineering ____
  2. 5. The canal’s board recently proposed building a new reservoir in the Indio River to _____
  3. 7. August to pay $400,000 in a special auction to move a ship ahead in the _____
  4. 8. Already _______ by inflation.
  5. 9. _______ in July cut the average to 32 vessels,
  6. 10. because huge amounts are used up every time a ship goes through the _____ as it travels the 40 miles across Panama.
  7. 11. climate change may be _____
  8. 12. Dry ______ and raising temperatures in the region.
  9. 13. and that project was ______ by cost disputes.
  10. 14. but the _____ left the canal without water
  11. 17. Though Panama has an ______ climate that makes it one of the wettest countries,
  12. 18. “In ______ terms, the canal can handle 38 transits per day,
Down
  1. 1. which generates over 6 percent of Panama’s _______________
  2. 2. allowing officials to slash the numer of ______
  3. 4. But ships carrying bulk _______generally don’t book passage.
  4. 6. This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive _______
  5. 8. ________ disruptions at the canal could stoke interest in building land routes in Mexico, Colombia and other countries
  6. 15. 5 percent of seaborne trade, is the latest example of how _____
  7. 16. known as its ____