Increased Turnover for Panama Canal

La Prensa writes today about an increase of turnover of $3.1 million over the same period last year.

In the first 10 months of the 2002 fiscal year, they charged $493 million in channel tolls. They were still $1.7 million under the forecasted amount.

This as everything else nowadays is blamed on the general world wide economic slowdown. But I think its still pretty good.

Its generally accepted in Panama that they guys at the Canal Authority are doing a pretty good job. Some even say better than when the Americans ran it.

Check out their cool web site. In particular their web cam is cool. They've also got a fair amount about the history of the canal. For me being in Panama City though, the Weather Radar is useful, as we are currently in the middle of Rainy Season.