The Panama Canal: How It Works, Who Owns It, and What’s Next!

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The Panama Canal: How It Works, Who Owns It, and What’s Next!The Panama Canal: How It Works, Who Owns It, and What’s Next!

A Joint IWF Panama/Canada Virtual Event

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 5:30 - 6:30 PM EST

Join Ilya Espino de Marotta, Deputy Administrator of the Panama Canal—the first woman to hold this position—for an insightful discussion on the workings of the Panama Canal, the $5.2 billion expansion completed by Panama in 2016, its ownership, and the future of the canal and its watershed.

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Le canal de Panama : son fonctionnement, son appartenance et la suite des événements !

Événement virtuel conjoint IWF Panama/Canada

mardi 4 février 2025 | 17h30 - 18h30 HNE

Venez rencontrer Ilya Espino de Marotta, administratrice adjointe du canal de Panama—la première femme à occuper ce poste—pour un aperçu fascinant du fonctionnement du canal de Panama, son expansion de 5,2 milliards en 2016, sa propriété, ainsi que l'avenir du canal et de son bassin.

Ilya Espino de Marotta, Deputy Administrator of the Panama Canal

Ilya Espino de Marotta is the first woman to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Panama Canal, a crucial 82 km link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The canal employs 12,000 people, generates $3 billion annually, and saw over 14,000 transits in 2023.

Before her current role, Ilya was the Executive Vice President for Engineering, overseeing all canal projects, including a $5.2 billion expansion. This expansion, completed in 2016, involved new locks, widening and deepening the canal, and creating a 6.3 km navigation channel for modern ships.

Ilya began her career in 1985 as the only woman engineer in the Panama Canal's Industrial Division shipyard. She has held various roles, such as Executive Manager of Resource Planning and Project Control and participated in the development of the Panama Canal Master Plan and Expansion Proposal.

In 2023, she became the canal's first Chief Sustainability Officer. Ilya holds a Marine Engineering degree from Texas A&M University and a Master's in Economic Engineering from Universidad Santa María La Antigua.

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