Brussels, 15/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced in a press release, issued on Tuesday 9 December, that it is to provide USD 500 million to help finance the widening of the Panama Canal.
Francisco de Paula Coelho, head of the EIB's department for lending operations in Asia and Latin America, said that “the European Union is one of the points of departure or arrival of goods passing through the canal. This EIB loan clearly demonstrates the EU's...