Tailbacks in Panama
China sponsors rival east-west canal routes

http://mondediplo.com/2014/09/09panama
Date Written:  2014-09-01
Publisher:  Le Monde diplomatique
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article

Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.