The Panama Canal, once an engineering marvel that revolutionized global trade, is now facing an unprecedented crisis. Due to ...

The Panama Canal recently hosted a visit from U.S. Ambassador to Panama, Kevin Marino Cabrera, as part of a day dedicated to ...

The Panama Canal welcomed a visit from the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama on May 21.Kevin Marino Cabrera ...

A prolonged drought has affected Gatun Lake, jeopardizing the Panama Canal's operations and threatening tourism, agriculture ...

With about 3 percent of the world’s maritime trade carried through its locks, the Panama Canal is a 24-hour operation. “Business as usual,” said Captain Hallax. “Always business as usual ...

But dependent on the US to protect their freedom from Colombia, Panama’s hands were tied. The US imported workers to build the canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks ...

FILE - President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to ...

The Panama Canal Authority aims to create a massive dam 840 meters in length and 80.5 meters in height to secure freshwater for its locks. It says the reservoir's 1.25 billion cubic meters of ...

June 26 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal authority said on Wednesday that recent rains boosted water levels, allowing heavier ships with larger cargo loads to transit the canal's Neopanamax locks.

larger locks to pass pass from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. As a civil engineer and native of the Panama Canal Zone, I’ve long marveled at the feats of the original and am impressed by its ...

Panama needed to expand the canal to accommodate a new generation of container ships, known as neo-Panamax, which are too big for the old canal locks. The new locks are wider than the old ones ...

The new locks, built by Panama without help from other governments, were sold to the nation and the world as a way to ensure that the canal remained as much of a lifeline in the hyperglobalized ...