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Dear PHS Members, Fernando Pinel PHS Secretary Dear PHS Members,My name is Fernando Pinel and I'm the new PHS secretary. We would like to inform that owing to the expected absence from the city of many of our members due to carnival festivities, we have decided to postpone our monthly meeting to February 13 at Niko's in Balboa. Next Guest Speaker. The Panama Canal has begun a new project that will permit transits of "Post-Panamax" vessels, thereby incrementing its total capacity. This will require the construction of two sets of locks at the Pacific and the Atlantic and also the excavation and dredging of millions of cubic meters of earth and rock for the access channels to the Locks. Although the Canal is undergoing a makeover, we should understand and appreciate the engineering challenges that the present Canal presented from its inception and over the years, and we must honor those men and women who made many sacrifices, some even giving their lives. It took great leadership and engineering to make the present Canal as it will take great leaders and engineers to successfully build this expanded and improved Canal. This talk, including Power-Point presentation, will portray many of those aspects, both as history and as a preview of the challenges yet to be surmounted. Our presenter, Ing. Rodrigo Lam, has been working for the Panama Canal for a dozen years in the Engineering Field and is the grandson of Fernando Manfredo, who served as Panama's first Administrator of the Canal and is one of our long-time members and active supportor. We hope to see you on Wednesday February 13 7.30pm at Nikos in La Boca, Balboa. Best regards, Fernando Pinel PHS Secretary. |
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