Alemán Zubieta Alberto Alemán Zubieta, the former administrator of the Panama Canal, will be presented with the Container and Intermodal Institute's "Connie Award" on Dec. 10 during a luncheon in Newark, N.J. The $5.25 billion canal expansion project, which began under Alemán Zubieta's leadership, will double the waterway's capacity and involves construction of a new set of locks to allow the transit of longer and wider ships. The canal's entrances at the Atlantic ...