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Forum: Cruising News & Events 30-06-2019, 19:49
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

The primary reason the US built the Canal was to allow quick redeployment of the Pacific and Atlantic naval fleets.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 29-06-2019, 18:06
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

The various US bases located around the Canal employed a lot of Panamanians at good wages for the area.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 29-06-2019, 18:05
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Yea, you missed opportunity to collect on US welfare.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 29-06-2019, 15:00
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

It is harder to find a Central American or Caribbean country that the US hasn't militarily intervened in.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 28-06-2019, 18:23
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

So you basically slander the Canal Authority by saying you had to pay bribes, but give no info. There is no way you needed to or were asked for bribes from anyone directly associated with the ACP...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 28-06-2019, 15:10
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Ah, the good old days when you could rely on getting welfare from Washington.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 28-06-2019, 15:08
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Except that is not how the Canal is run or was ever run. Handline vessels travel with large ships in the vast majority of cruising boat transits.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 25-06-2019, 15:14
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Yes, you can do a bank wire to pay for the transit. It adds a few days of wait as you do not get scheduled prior to payment. Any bank holidays in your home country, New York or Panama will delay the...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 25-06-2019, 01:46
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

The US was integral to Panama seperating from Colombia including using the US Navy to get what was wanted.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 24-06-2019, 14:17
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

OK, fair enough. There are not that many vessels that need the larger locks vs the standard panamax size. I've done 8 or 9 handline transits in cruising boats of the Canal and find it to be very well...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 23-06-2019, 20:15
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Exactly, it is an If statement that you know to be false in real life and use to bloster your argument
Forum: Cruising News & Events 23-06-2019, 18:28
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

The part I bolded is not a fact.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 23-06-2019, 15:36
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Does it help to make up facts?
Forum: Cruising News & Events 22-06-2019, 23:23
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

The new locks recycle 60% of the water used from Lake Gatun, the reservior that feeds the locks and supplies Panama Citys water. The old locks dump 100% of the fresh water into the ocean.
Forum: Cruising News & Events 22-06-2019, 20:20
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Maybe the government should cut back on the Panamanian health system that covers the countries poor and middle class to reduce the costs for the poor, hard done by, world cruisers who want to take...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 22-06-2019, 16:59
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

So if it's more simple and you want to pay for it, fine. Just don't be one of the complainers on this post that say it's too expensive when they could have easily done the work themselves and...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 22-06-2019, 15:12
Replies: 169
Views: 25,594
Posted By Paul L
Re: Proposed cost increase to transit Panama Canal

Some of the comments here about the Canal and its transit costs are way off mark. Including costs of line handlers, agents, immigration, etc is just padding. There is no need to use an agent, line...
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