24 Mar 2016 / Panama Canal, Panama

Expansion inauguration date announced

The Panama Canal Expansion will be officially inaugurated on Sunday, June 26, 2016.

The announcement was made [on 23 March] during the inauguration ceremony of the Canal's state-of-the-art Scale Model Maneuvering Training Facility, which will provide additional hands-on experience to pilots and tugboat captains to operate in the Expanded Panama Canal….

….The Expansion Program is currently 97% complete. Final testing will be conducting in the following weeks, leading up to the official inauguration of the Expanded Canal on June 26, 2016.

(For information about operations in the Panama Canal contact GAC-Wilford & McKay at [email protected])

Source: Extract from Panama Canal Authority press release dated 23 March 2015

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