01 Terminal de Balboa

02 KCS-intermodal-yard

03 Torrijos-Carter

04 Noriega

05 Ruins

06 Panama_City

07 Yachts

08 Pilots

09 Canal Administration Building

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20 Cranes in trees

21 Balboa port

22 Post-Panamax

23 Navigation software

24 Container ship

25 Small boat

26 Mount Kibo

27 Mount Kibo

28 Mount Kibo

29 Mount Kibo

30 lock

31 lock

32 lock

Pilot's view

33 Pilot's hand

34 Mt Kibo

35 bridge

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Imperial Infrastructures

Panama Canal

With uncanny precision, the exclusion zone around the canal recalls the Indian Boundary Lines imposed on either side of the Chicago Portage. Here again we cross a continental divide. Constructed for military ends in 1904-14 (just after Chicago’s Sanitary and Shipping canal in 1900), the Canal is an imperial infrastructure. It articulates the flows of global commerce. A quick route to China and a southern passage to all the western oceans.