Panama Vocab

7. The canal’s board recently proposed building a new reservoir in the Indio River to ____ the water supply
8. The Panama Canal was a ______
11. The Panama canal is the latest example of how _____ things are
12. Officials were forced to slash the number of _______
13. ________ disruptions at the canal could stoke interest in building land routes in Mexico, Colombia and other countries that have coastlines on both oceans
17. Panama has an ________ climate that makes it one of the wettest countries
18. The canal ______ in July cut the average to 32 vessels

1. In Panama, a lack of water has _____ canal operations in recent years
2. This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive calculus
3. Which generates over 6 percent of Panama’s ______ _________ __
4. His company decided in August to pay $400,000 in a special auction to move a ship ahead in the _____.
5. The construction of larger locks was completed two years late, in 2016, and that project was ______ by cost disputes.
6. A portion of these extra costs will be passed on to consumers, already ___ by inflation
9. Huge amounts are used up every time a ship goes through the locks as it travels the 40 miles across Panama
10. This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive _____.
13. Scientists believe that climate change may be prolonging dry spells
14. In ______ terms, the canal can handle 38 transits per day, so 12 to 15 is a lot
15. The canal authority is also limiting how far a ship’s hull can go below the water, known as its draft
16. An extensive period of time without rain