Wider Panama Canal will handle super-sized cargo ships
ByABC News
August 5, 2009, 10:38 PM
— -- A $5.25 billion dig will make a path for supersize ships in the new and larger set of locks planned for the Panama Canal.
If all the shipping containers in a Post-Panamax ship where stacked on top of each other, they would be over 19 miles high.
Explore this interactive graphic for more on these massive ships and the Panama Canal.