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Panama Canal sets one week deadline to clinch deal

[February 13, 2014]  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 <SCYR.MC>.

"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)

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