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Suez & Panama Canals
The Suez Canal (1869) and the Panama Canal (1914) cut thousands of kilometres from sea routes and reshape world trade.
Open in the interactive tree →The Suez Canal joins the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, saving the voyage around Africa, and Panama joins the Atlantic and Pacific. Their dimensions still shape the design of cargo ships.
Prerequisites
- Road & Canal Networks312 BC
- Steamship1807
- Dynamite (Nobel)1867Panama's Culebra Cut was dug with dynamite blasting on a huge scale
Unlocks
- Container Ship1956Canal routes set the shipping lanes and ship sizes of world trade
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