Ships of scale simulator arrive in October

The first two ships of the scale simulator that the Summit is building, should be in Panama and operating by the month of October, announced the administrator of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), Jorge Luis Quijano.

‘Between August and September, they should be doing the performance testing in a lake in France, to then ship them to Panama. Their arrival will take about two weeks,’ detailed Quijano.

The ACP administrator announced that by August the lake will be ready and already, more than 50% of the civil work is finished.

The capacitation center is being built at the moment in an area of eight hectares and is different from the mathematical simulation, which is what has been employed at the moment.

It’s a simulation with live model ships. The center will have a lake, the Culebra Cut, the ports and the ship, only 25 times smaller than its normal size.

In its totality, the project has a scale of 1/25. The ship that will be transiting will be approximately 14 to 15 meters in length and will weigh 17 and 19 tons, according to the scale of the real ship.

The advantage of the simulator is that it allows for the feeling of the effects of the displacement of the vessels, with the difference that it’s five times faster. With the mathematical simulator, however, you can see, but not feel; one complements the other.

The Simulation Center, Research and Development of the Panama Canal Authority exists since 1983, when the Canal was under the administration of the United States, which it operated under the name ‘Maritime Training’.

Now, it goes by the name of ‘Sidmar’, the acronym of the center, but it continues being the unit of maritime training.

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