{"id":23820,"date":"2009-05-13T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T11:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pancanal.com\/en\/?p=23820"},"modified":"2021-09-10T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:44:42","slug":"inmcumbent-panamanian-president-and-panama-canal-ceo-brief-president-elect-on-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pancanal.com\/en\/inmcumbent-panamanian-president-and-panama-canal-ceo-brief-president-elect-on-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmcumbent Panamanian President and Panama Canal CEO brief President-Elect on Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><em>PRESIDENT-ELECT RICARDO MARTINELLI DISCUSSES CANAL EXPANSION PROGRESS<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pancanal.com\/eng\/pr\/press-releases\/images\/331-lge.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pancanal.com\/eng\/pr\/press-releases\/images\/331-sm.jpg\" alt=\"President-Elect Ricardo Martinell discusses Canal Expansion Progress\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong>Panama City, Panama, May 13, 2009 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Panamanian President Mart\u00edn Torrijos and Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator\/CEO Alberto Alem\u00e1n Zubieta briefed President-elect Ricardo Martinelli on the status of the Canal Expansion Program Monday. Elected May 3, President Martinelli takes office July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Expansion will build a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks. The project will double Canal capacity and allow more traffic and the passage of longer and wider ships. Overall, expansion is estimated at $5.25 billion, with an anticipated completion of\u00a02014. In leadership until 2014, President-elect Martinelli and his Administration will serve for the remainder of the project.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: (left to right) ACP Administrator\/CEO Alberto Alem\u00e1n Zubieta, ACP Board of Directors Chairman Dani Kuzniecky, Panamanian Vice-president and Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis, Panamanian President Mart\u00edn Torrijos, Panamanian President-elect Ricardo Martinelli, Panamanian Vice-president-elect and appointed Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela and Panamanian Minister for Canal Affairs R\u00f3mulo Roux.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Panama Canal Authority<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is the autonomous agency of the Government of Panama in charge of managing, operating and maintaining the Panama Canal. The ACP is governed by its organic law and the regulations approved by its Board of Directors. For more information, please refer to the Panama Canal Authority&#8217;s Web site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pancanal.com\/\">www.pancanal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0PRESIDENT-ELECT RICARDO MARTINELLI DISCUSSES CANAL EXPANSION PROGRESS Panama City, Panama, May 13, 2009 &#8211;\u00a0Panamanian President Mart\u00edn Torrijos and Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator\/CEO Alberto Alem\u00e1n Zubieta briefed President-elect Ricardo Martinelli on the status of the Canal Expansion Program Monday. Elected May 3, President Martinelli takes office July 1. Expansion will build a new lane of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pancanal.com\/en\/inmcumbent-panamanian-president-and-panama-canal-ceo-brief-president-elect-on-expansion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inmcumbent Panamanian President and Panama Canal CEO brief President-Elect on Expansion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-23820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-image"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inmcumbent Panamanian President and Panama Canal CEO brief President-Elect on Expansion - Autoridad del Canal de Panam\u00e1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pancanal.com\/en\/inmcumbent-panamanian-president-and-panama-canal-ceo-brief-president-elect-on-expansion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inmcumbent Panamanian President and Panama Canal CEO brief President-Elect on Expansion - Autoridad del Canal de Panam\u00e1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0PRESIDENT-ELECT RICARDO MARTINELLI DISCUSSES CANAL EXPANSION PROGRESS Panama City, Panama, May 13, 2009 &#8211;\u00a0Panamanian President Mart\u00edn Torrijos and Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator\/CEO Alberto Alem\u00e1n Zubieta briefed President-elect Ricardo Martinelli on the status of the Canal Expansion Program Monday. 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