That is mainly a Southern seaway...........the Gulf coast...................to Asia, etc.............Chicago, Il.........is on the Northern seaway.......


Who built the Panama Canal and why?

Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Panama Canal - Office of the Historian - Department of State

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal

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Who was the Suez Canal built by?

In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.