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Drought in Panama - Good for railroads?

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Drought in Panama - Good for railroads?
Posted by rdamon on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 5:07 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/climate/drought-water-shortage-panama-canal.html

5 months of drought has forced restrictions on cargo through canal.

 

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 4:48 PM

The only 'nautical thread I could find.  The following video contains a minute or so of scenes from Hamersley Iron in Austrailia as the loader of a vessel that ran aground and the the efforts undertaken to free the vessel - in the order of marine casulties it was a simple job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkOTpzC69o

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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