Panama canal expansion could suffer new delay - spokesman


  • World
  • Friday, 27 Nov 2015

The new set of locks are seen at the expansion project of the Panama Canal on the pacific side in Panama City, November 17, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The expansion of the Panama canal could face a new delay due to cracks that emerged a few months ago in one of the locks, a spokesman for the waterway's authority said on Thursday.

The consortium leading the construction project - led by Italy's Salini Impregilo and Spain's Sacyr - expects to finish repairing the cracks by mid-January, but it has not given a new date for completing the work, the Panama Canal Authority said.

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