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Dig This: The Panama Canal Expansion Used Enough Steel To Build 22 Eiffel Towers

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016
The Cosco Shipping Panama freighter made history Sunday by being the first working ship to slip through the Panama Canal's huge new locks. The expansion project swallowed enough steel to build 22 Eiffel Towers, cost $5.2 billion and took nine years to complete.
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