After more than a year-long delay, a new set of larger locks for the Panama Canal will be complete by the end of June, after builders repaired cracks that had formed in the concrete walls. The consortium building a third, bigger set of locks on one of the world's busiest maritime routes, headed by Italy's Salini Impregilo and Spain's Sacyr, is now in testing, the final step before the project's inauguration. Panama should start to benefit from the expansion in 2017, when the government foresees getting an extra $1.4 billion in revenue, a jump of 30 percent compared with this fiscal year.
