I was going to answer in this thread, but you may still be my opponent in the final match of the tournament and it would be foolish of me to give such information away :-)
:-) Feel free to ask questions and discuss, no matter how small.
Yea, cause this entire site is designed to discuss the game! We don’t know everything, but we can field the majority of questions. If you wanna know what the designer was thinking, well, you’ll have to ask him. grin
If your side owns Panama at the START of your move (just before you do “purchase units”) then you can use it. The same is true for Suez if your side controls BOTH T-J and Egypt.
If your side does NOT control both sides at the time you purchase units, you cannot traverse Suez at any time during your move.