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Empresas y finanzas

Panama Canal sets one week deadline to clinch deal


    PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The Panama Canal has set a target of no more than a week to reach a deal to jumpstart work on a multi-billion dollar expansion of the waterway amid a cost row, its administrator said on Wednesday.

    Panama Canal Authority head Jorge Quijano, who said earlier on Wednesday the sides were close to a deal, warned that failure to reach an agreement would leave no alternative but to complete the project without a consortium led by Spain's Sacyr .

    "I think we have no more than a week, and that is the target we have set," Quijano said. "If we go beyond that, then we will have no alternative."

    (Reporting by Lomi Kriel; Editing by Simon Gardner)