Ships barely fit it.
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It was built during a time when ships were smaller. However it is impossible to overstate just how big of feat of willpower and engineering the canals were. By the end of the project it cost over $11 billion US dollars in today’s money and the workers had move 240 million cubic yard of earth. So to expand the human made canals by even a small amount would’ve taken even more time and money. So they built them to the average size of most ships of the day in order for the canal to be open as soon as possible. Eventually ships grew as big as they could to fit into the canal to maximize cargo per trip which translates to more money per trip.
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