Panama Vocab

3. In ______ terms, the canal can handle 38 transits per day, so 12 to 15 is a lot
4. The canal’s board recently proposed building a new reservoir in the Indio River to ____ the water supply
5. Panama has an ________ climate that makes it one of the wettest countries
6. Scientists believe that climate change may be prolonging dry spells
8. His company decided in August to pay $400,000 in a special auction to move a ship ahead in the _____.
10. Huge amounts are used up every time a ship goes through the locks as it travels the 40 miles across Panama
11. This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive _____.
13. The Panama Canal was a ______
14. An extensive period of time without rain
18. The canal ______ in July cut the average to 32 vessels
19. In Panama, a lack of water has _____ canal operations in recent years

1. Which generates over 6 percent of Panama’s ______ _________ __
2. ________ disruptions at the canal could stoke interest in building land routes in Mexico, Colombia and other countries that have coastlines on both oceans
7. Officials were forced to slash the number of _______
9. The construction of larger locks was completed two years late, in 2016, and that project was ______ by cost disputes.
12. This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive calculus
15. The Panama canal is the latest example of how _____ things are
16. A portion of these extra costs will be passed on to consumers, already ___ by inflation
17. The canal authority is also limiting how far a ship’s hull can go below the water, known as its draft