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The expansion, which opened yesterday, Panama Canal, one of the largest engineering projects in recent decades, bears the mark UPCT.
The project manager of construction of the third set of locks of the Panama Canal, which will allow doubling the 300 million tonnes (6% of world trade) traversing each year from one ocean to another, studied Engineering Electrical late 80 in Cartagena.
José Peláez, head of the consortium led by Sacyr Kingdom On the Canal which carried out the monumental work during the last seven years consortium, emphasizes that "the expansion of the Canal is an infrastructure with few similarities in the world, to design it and build technology and has developed specific components, and have sought atypical constructive and logistics solutions in the field of infrastructure construction. "
"To make this great engineering work has been to move large volumes of materials, equipment and professionals around the world," continues Pelaez, who notes that in the works of the Canal have come to participate a thousand engineers "almost all specialties, from civil engineers to industrial, through 'telcos', computer programmers, architects, etc. "details.
Of the 40 different nationalities of these professionals they highlighted 200 Spanish "occupying positions of greater responsibility" stresses.
"The Spanish engineers have a great preparation, with profound physical and mathematical knowledge, which is our basis for understanding any technical problem and solve it," says former student, who believes that students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) "will be engineers highly prepared to contribute to the global economy, "if they open" the field, both specializations and geographically "and face the challenges" forward ".
Especially attractive foresees the future of the naval sector.
"Huge possibilities open up with the new Canal, largest and transport of raw materials with different origin and destination ships.
The relocation of production facilities has made the world of transport and logistics copper great importance in the world economy.
Shipping, despite the crisis, continues to increase year after year, "he analyzes.
After graduating from the School of Industrial Engineering Cartagena, Pelaez did surveying work and urbanization in several companies before joining Sacyr in 1993, where he participated in construction of highways, waterworks, airports and railway infrastructures.
In 2001 he became managing one of the largest contracts of the company, the Santiago-Valparaiso highway in Chile.
In 2005 he was appointed head of Sacyr in Costa Rica and in 2011 was transferred to Panama, where he first was responsible for the expansion works of the Canal on the Atlantic coast and from 2014 is the head.
Source: UPCT
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