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Panama Canal and Suez Canal require tolls, granted not exactly the same thing.
by kelipso 6mo ago
Panama Canal and Suez Canal require tolls, granted not exactly the same thing.
- throw-qqqqq 6mo agoThe Panama and Suez Canals charge fees because they are artificial passageways, created by the blood and sweat of thousands. Both were huge investments. The Panama Canal had cost 400-500 million USD and 25-30k lives to construct, when it opened in 1914. The Suez Canal cost around 100 million USD and 100-120k lives to build in 1869. Charging for transit through man-made infrastructure is fundamentally different from charging for passage through a natural international waterway.