Panama Canal administrator Jorge Quijano says that completion work on the New Panama Canal now stands at 96% and he expects that it will open for business during the second quarter of 2016.

“We are very close—only four percent remains to complete the project,” Quijano said at a project update briefing on Monday. “An expansion of the Panama Canal has never been done and we should all feel very good about where we are today.”  

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