What greatly reduces a ship’s passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean?

 One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage

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Years of bloody combat had been had and yet freedom was once again under attack.