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How the Panama Canal Expansion Reshaped Global Shipping
In this episode of The Productivity Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how the Panama Canal expansion, completed in 2016, transformed global shipping productivity. They examine the specific bottleneck the original canal created for modern container ships, the $5.25 billion expansion project's engineering and economic details, and the surprising downstream effects on U.S. ports, trade routes, and even which crops are grown where. The hosts dig into the numbers: how transit times dropped, ship sizes grew, and how this single infrastructure project unlocked trillions in trade efficiency. A…
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