Third Panama Canal Bridge | Panama Panama, at the southern tip of Central America, is on the isthmus connecting North and South America. Plans for a canal in strategic Panama were pursued but abandoned by the king of Spain in 1534 and by Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1888 before the United States completed the canal in 1914. It currently serves 17,000 ships and 300 million tons of cargo annually. Challenge Two bridges in Panama span the canal, but expansion of the world-renowned waterway called for the construction of a third bridge by 2016. The new bridge in Panama will link the key seaport of Colon to communities to the west of the canal. Solution Louis Berger, involved in designing the two existing Panama Canal bridges, was chosen to design the third bridge and access routes. The ?r

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