A key aspect to the study is an evaluation of our ports' general "readiness" to handle the increased traffic that the widened canal will bring, both in cargo volume and vessel size.
For decades, the size of the Panama Canal has been a constraint on the maritime industry, which has been building ships that significantly exceed the canal's navigable dimensions, limiting direct international trade options, most especially for East and Gulf Coast ports of the United States.
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