美洲后院的内湖工程--巴拿马运河拓展工程

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Panama Canal Expansion to Bring Major Benefits
(来源:http://www.dredgingtoday.com/201 ... ing-major-benefits/

The $5.25 billion being spent on widening of the Panama Canal is only the beginning of expenditures in the rush to accommodate giant container ships. Billions more dollars will be spent in the United States, as ports rush to expand facilities to receive the post-panamax ships passing through when the expansion is completed in 2014, one hundred years after it first opened.

Panama has been hosting delegations or port authorities and logistics experts from New York to Miami, including Savannah, and Atlanta, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Jacksonville Florida.

The widening will lead to the biggest shift in the freight business since the 1950s, when ships first started using giant containers of equal size.

Some of the ships known as post-Panamax can carry three times as many containers as the largest ships currently making the 48 mile transit.

The widening will also allow the U.S. Navy to transit some of its super sized aircraft carriers that currently have to make the long haul around the cape.

The expansion will enable products made in Asia to be sent directly to the East Coast instead of being unloaded on the West Coast and then sent east by train or truck.

A result could be a shift in business worth billions of dollars to ports, and big savings for companies like Ikea, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, always on the hunt for more efficient ways to serve shoppers in the Eastern third of the United States, where a majority of the U.S. population lives.

To capture some of the new traffic, almost every large East Coast port and those along the Gulf of Mexico have projects under way. Some ports that are too small to handle the giant ships are improving railroads and truck routes, making them more efficient in anticipation of an overall increase in the number of containers coming to the East says the New York Times.

Others want to dig deeper channels and become the leading port in their regions for companies operating the big vessels.

Containers have become the name of the game in shipping says a lead article. Although cruise ships and imports and exports of cars, oil and bulk agricultural loads like cotton and fertilizer still make up a good portion of port traffic, most of the growth is in containers filled with products that Americans like to buy.

The newest, biggest ships can carry the equivalent of as many as 15,000 containers that are 20 feet long. But they are also heavier, wider and require deeper water. In Savannah, for example, the water is only 42 feet deep. That is enough, with tidal variations, to handle ships loaded with 5,500 containers.

The port at Norfolk, Va., is 50 feet deep, and is the only one on the East Coast that can handle the biggest, fully loaded container ships.

The navigation channel that feeds the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey is deep enough, but the Bayonne Bridge is not tall enough for the new container ships to pass under.

Officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are studying options. They might raise the bridge by 64 feet. A study estimated the cost at $1.3 billion.

As Savannah port officials are learning, digging up six feet of mud is not easy or cheap. Environmentalists are concerned that dredging will cause historic Savannah buildings along the shore to tumble into the water, suck sand from the shores of Tybee Island and ruin freshwater marshes.

The Corps of Engineers’ environmental impact document, issued after a 14 yearstudy, suggested deepening but not widening the channel to protect the buildings along the shore and adding 3,000 acres of wildlife preservation land to help offset the impact on freshwater marshes.

[根据本人了解巴拿马运河拓展工程新搞的几个水闸最大宽度大约54米。好像我们国家也有参与其中,不知道是为谁服务了,呵呵。咱们应当别浪费啊,比如,东行去古巴。]

巴拿马运河现有老闸门

巴拿马运河现有老闸门
来各位学习下国际形势,练练英文

Panama Canal Expansion to Bring Major Benefits
(来源:http://www.dredgingtoday.com/201 ... ing-major-benefits/)

The $5.25 billion being spent on widening of the Panama Canal is only the beginning of expenditures in the rush to accommodate giant container ships. Billions more dollars will be spent in the United States, as ports rush to expand facilities to receive the post-panamax ships passing through when the expansion is completed in 2014, one hundred years after it first opened.

Panama has been hosting delegations or port authorities and logistics experts from New York to Miami, including Savannah, and Atlanta, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Jacksonville Florida.

The widening will lead to the biggest shift in the freight business since the 1950s, when ships first started using giant containers of equal size.

Some of the ships known as post-Panamax can carry three times as many containers as the largest ships currently making the 48 mile transit.

The widening will also allow the U.S. Navy to transit some of its super sized aircraft carriers that currently have to make the long haul around the cape.

The expansion will enable products made in Asia to be sent directly to the East Coast instead of being unloaded on the West Coast and then sent east by train or truck.

A result could be a shift in business worth billions of dollars to ports, and big savings for companies like Ikea, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, always on the hunt for more efficient ways to serve shoppers in the Eastern third of the United States, where a majority of the U.S. population lives.

To capture some of the new traffic, almost every large East Coast port and those along the Gulf of Mexico have projects under way. Some ports that are too small to handle the giant ships are improving railroads and truck routes, making them more efficient in anticipation of an overall increase in the number of containers coming to the East says the New York Times.

Others want to dig deeper channels and become the leading port in their regions for companies operating the big vessels.

Containers have become the name of the game in shipping says a lead article. Although cruise ships and imports and exports of cars, oil and bulk agricultural loads like cotton and fertilizer still make up a good portion of port traffic, most of the growth is in containers filled with products that Americans like to buy.

The newest, biggest ships can carry the equivalent of as many as 15,000 containers that are 20 feet long. But they are also heavier, wider and require deeper water. In Savannah, for example, the water is only 42 feet deep. That is enough, with tidal variations, to handle ships loaded with 5,500 containers.

The port at Norfolk, Va., is 50 feet deep, and is the only one on the East Coast that can handle the biggest, fully loaded container ships.

The navigation channel that feeds the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey is deep enough, but the Bayonne Bridge is not tall enough for the new container ships to pass under.

Officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are studying options. They might raise the bridge by 64 feet. A study estimated the cost at $1.3 billion.

As Savannah port officials are learning, digging up six feet of mud is not easy or cheap. Environmentalists are concerned that dredging will cause historic Savannah buildings along the shore to tumble into the water, suck sand from the shores of Tybee Island and ruin freshwater marshes.

The Corps of Engineers’ environmental impact document, issued after a 14 yearstudy, suggested deepening but not widening the channel to protect the buildings along the shore and adding 3,000 acres of wildlife preservation land to help offset the impact on freshwater marshes.

[根据本人了解巴拿马运河拓展工程新搞的几个水闸最大宽度大约54米。好像我们国家也有参与其中,不知道是为谁服务了,呵呵。咱们应当别浪费啊,比如,东行去古巴。]

巴拿马运河现有老闸门

巴拿马运河现有老闸门
这工程好像李嘉诚有参与。

这大奸商,手伸的可够长的,连英国电网都不放过。

其实,本人关注这个问题,就在于扩展后巴拿马运河能否让现代航母通过,这个影响很大哦。
英语水平在26个英文字母之间跳跃的低调路过!
这个运河确实算一个创举
scott_27 发表于 2010-12-13 21:21


    现在美国的航母不能过吗?
如果MD的航母不能通过巴拿马运河,那可是大悲剧!
孙文 发表于 2010-12-13 22:08


    貌似是不能吧
所以美帝的航母是布置在两洋的。
不过苏伊士运河可以过
leekkeek 发表于 2010-12-13 22:34


    考虑到全球驻军和军事基地  还不算大悲剧  本来航母的反映速度也不能和空军比

核动力的多跑几天也能赶过来  除非世界大战  否则还不算大悲剧
航母太宽了吧
巴拿马运河
scott_27 发表于 2010-12-13 21:21

可以的,比如 USS Randolph 朗道夫号埃塞克斯级反潜型航空母舰
美国所有的军舰,包括航母在内,舰体宽度都不超过34米,就是为了能够穿过巴拿马运河。就算是为之付出各种性能上的代价也要如此。所以,运河的拓宽,美国海军是举双手支持的。
LS某些不知道的就请百度吧。


MD的大舰都是按运河的最大通过来设计的。
从当年的战死舰就是这样了。
学习了
那一楼中黄色部分文字是怎么回事儿?记者搞错了?
TG从委内瑞拉运油,往巴西运货也方便点
fw190a6 发表于 2010-12-14 00:00

百度也是人填的。本人从来不往那里填东西。

回到本题,美国航母自从1945年的中途岛级起就没有一个级别能过巴拿马运河的,中途岛级设计时的型宽就34.4米。巴拿马现有的限制是船宽不大于33米。这就是所谓的巴拿马级船只的设计要求。而美国现代的航母仅型宽就39到40米,而飞行甲板一般76米,绝对卡壳。

未来巴拿马运河扩建后的新船闸54米,是否在美国的航母是否真的能过,这个新闻里说的,好像可以。但本人就不知道了。虽然比尼米兹级的40米的船体宽了不少,但是是否高出水面20米的76米宽的飞行甲板被卡,这要问工程人员,或看以后美国航母是否真能过去了。
孙文 发表于 2010-12-13 22:08

自从1945年造的中途岛级开始,之后搞的各级美国航母到现在为止都没法过现有的巴拿马运河。连现代的巨型油船和巨型集装箱货轮也没法过巴拿马。你查查所谓的巴拿马级以及所谓的超巴拿马级的船只就知道了。所谓的巴拿马级就是船宽不能超过33米,此外还有吃水和船长的限制,具体数据我忘了,查查也可知。
回复 12# bigtian
那都是什么年代的航母了,都拆掉了。现代化的大中型航母都过不去。
scott_27 发表于 2010-12-14 21:48

哈哈 ,被发现了。
qtycr 发表于 2010-12-14 08:50
那是说,如果未来的运河扩建好了,美国航母要是想从美国东岸到美国西岸,就不用再长途绕行南美洲的合恩角了。