With the opening of the Panama canal in 1914, the importance of the Southern cone economies declined, as investors turned their attention to Asia.

The golden age of Valparaíso ’ s commerce ended after the opening of the Panama Canal ( 1914 ).

Since the turn of the 21st century, shipping has increased in the last few decades with fruit exports, increasing opening of the Chilean economy to world commerce, and larger-scale, Post-Panamax ships that do not fit the Panama Canal.

Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty arose.

Hard Rock International, continues to expand internationally ( including hotels, casinos, resorts, and condominiums ) through several joint ventures ( Becker Ventures, Ong Beng Seng / Hotel Properties Limited and Loews Hotels ) including hotels in Chicago, Bali, Orlando, Penang, San Diego, Singapore and planned opening in Abu Dhabi, Cancun, Dubai, Hungary, Panama, Punta Cana and Vallarta-as well as hotel-casinos in Hollywood, Florida ; Tampa, Florida ; Biloxi, Mississippi ; Las Vegas, Nevada ; Albuquerque, New Mexico ; and Catoosa, Oklahoma, near Tulsa.

George Washington Goethals ( pronounced gō-thülz ; June 29, 1858 – January 21, 1928 ) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of the construction and the opening of the Panama Canal.

That never happened and after 1903 American attention turned to the Panama Canal as the key to opening new trade routes.

From the late 18th century to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, thousands of trans-oceanic voyages stopped by Punta Arenas as the most convenient strait between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The earthquake and the degradation to a provincial capital are seen in retrospect as the culmination of a long period of economic decline that began with shifts in trade routes due to the expansion of railroads in southern Chile and the opening of the Panama Canal in 1911.

The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was also influenced by the opening of the Panama Canal and the overwhelming success of the novel Ramona set in Alta California.

The port saw a decrease in traffic after the opening of the Panama Canal from 1914 on, but traffic has started to build up since the oil boom of the 1970s.

Coupled with the massive increase in canal traffic since its opening, and the resultant increase in water usage, this is an ongoing problem for the canal ( see Panama Canal: Water issues ).

It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, and prior to the opening of the Panama Canal was a major shipping route known simply as the Tehuantepec Route.

The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first U. S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal.

The archway is flanked by engaged Doric orders supporting a rich, fructated entablature enclosing, in the spandrels, beautiful figures symbolizing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans joining waters together in commemoration of the opening of the Panama Canal.

The establishment in 1903 of the newly independent nation of Panama ( under pressure from the United States ) led to the creation of the Canal Zone and opening of the Panama Canal in 1914.

When he wasn ’ t trapping rats and squirrels in California, Blue directed mosquito eradication efforts to control yellow fever in New Orleans ( 1905 ), at the Jamestown Exposition ( 1907 ), and in Honolulu ( 1911 ), to help Hawaii prepare for traffic to follow the opening of the new Panama Canal.

Soon after the First World War he persuaded the Swedish lighting company Electrolux, for which he then worked ( securing the contract to floodlight the opening ceremony of the Panama Canal, among other successes ), to buy the patent to a cleaner and to pay him for sales in company stock.

After the opening of Potosi in 1546, Peruvian silver was shipped north to Panama City and carried by mule train across the isthmus to Nombre de Dios for shipment to Havana and Spain.

With the opening of the Panama Canal and the planned Panama-California International Exposition in 1915, the voters of the area voted for City Heights to become an incorporated city known as East San Diego on November 2, 1912.

The Madeira-Mamoré railway had about a year of full operation before the combination of the collapse of rubber prices, the opening of a railway from Bolivia to the Pacific via Chile and of the Panama Canal rendered it uneconomic.

In 1869, Abdülaziz received visits from Eugénie de Montijo, Empress consort of Napoleon III of France and other foreign monarchs on their way to the opening of the Suez Canal.

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

It continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1848 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

After 1869 with the opening of the Suez Canal that allowed competition with steam vessels, the tea trade then collapsed for clippers.

Growing French interest in the area took place against a backdrop of British activity in Egypt and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Despite the efforts of his successor Emperor Yohannes IV to establish a relationship with the United Kingdom, Ethiopia was ignored by the world powers until the opening of the Suez Canal, and more important, the Mahdist War, drew outside attention to her once more.

* Indians, most of them from Hyderabad, came as merchants after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1870 ; many others migrated as workers after the closure of the frontier with Spain in 1969 to replace Spanish ones.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 revived European interest in the East, but no nation was successful in establishing trade dominance.

The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.

In 1869, the opening of the Suez Canal benefited Malta's economy greatly as there was a massive increase in the shipping which entered in the port.

The seaway's opening is often credited with making the Erie Canal obsolete, thus setting off the severe economic decline of several cities in Upstate New York.

The settlers ’ isolation abruptly ended, though, in the 1820s with the opening of the Erie Canal.

After the opening of the canal, the Suez Canal Company was in financial difficulties.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 created the first salt-water passage between the Mediterranean and Red seas.

However, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, together with the gradual move from sailing ships to coal-fired steam ships, increased the isolation of the islands, as they were no longer needed as a stopping port for journeys from Europe to the Far East.

The colony gained much political and strategic importance after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the increased traffic on the Red Sea route to India

The opening of the Erie Canal in the early 19th century meant a huge boom in business for New York City, since it was the only major eastern seaport which had direct access by inland waterways to ports on the Great Lakes.

Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House ( which opened with Verdi's Rigoletto ) in the same year.

( Verdi had been asked to compose an ode for the opening of the Canal, but declined on the grounds that he did not write " occasional pieces ".

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 allowed the extensive import into southern Iran of inexpensive European factory-made goods, either directly from Europe or via India.