Ships barely fit it.
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It’s not small. Ships these days are large. Far larger than the ships of the day.
Also when it was built steam shovels were cutting edge technology and the only infrastructure (like roads) available in the area were ones they made themselves. If we were to make it today we’d make it a lot wider, both because the ships are larger and because it’s a lot easier to do than it was then.
But modifying a canal like Panama is far more complicated and expensive than digging it out in the first place, especially with modern environmental impact concerns. They can’t exactly shut it down for a couple years while they expand it, after all. So the cost/benefit ratio of expanding it just isn’t there.
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