(17 May 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Panama City - 17 May 2015
1. People walking through Panama Canal's expanded lock chamber
2. Various of visitors taking pictures inside lock chamber
3. Visitors posing for photo with Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Quijano (white cap)
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jorge Quijano, Panama Canal Administrator:
"Soon, where we are standing will be flooded. Within the next two to three months, there will be water here and there will not be an opportunity for the people to visit it. There have been a lot of sacrifices made by Panama to build this infrastructure and we are giving them an opportunity to feel where all of that effort is going into."
5. Couple taking photo in front of lock gate
6. Lock gate with banners attached, tilt down to people walking across bridges below
7. Visitors crossing bridge
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Giovanna Rodriguez, visitor:
"(Visiting the locks is) unforgettable, something wonderful that will never happen again ever. It's never going to happen again, it has to be experienced, enjoyed, as a good Panamanian ++Unidentified man speaks over Rodriguez's shoulder, UPSOUND (Spanish) "Here from Venezuela"++ and well foreigners too. Please, Panama is Panama."
9. Various of people queuing and walking in the rain
10. Tracking shot of people inside lock chamber
STORYLINE
Thousands of people flocked to the newly expanded lock chambers at the Panama Canal on Sunday for a special tour of the site before the gates are opened and the chambers are flooded.
Despite heavy rain, visitors queued up for hours to be able to take photos in the lock chamber, which will be filled with water in the coming months as part of the multi-billion dollar expansion project.
Canal authorities expected up to 45,000 people to tour the chamber on Sunday.
In 2006, Panama decided to build a wider canal to accommodate vessels capable of carrying more than twice the number of containers than ships currently using the canal.
The expansion has been beset by a nasty battle over cost overruns with European builders and delays that have pushed back its expected opening by a year to April 2016.
The Panama Canal is a 77 kilometre (48 mile) man-made shipping lane that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, making it one of the world's most important trade routes.
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