Thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal every year, but few imagine what happens when one of its locks needs to be ...

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

Opinion: Lawyers for Civil Rights Executive Director Iván Espinoza-Madrigal explains why the White House's attempts to wrest ...

I’ve visited the Panama Canal three times ... It’s an amazing structure of dams and locks that allows big ships to avoid long voyages around the tip of South America. It lets them take ...

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 Panama ...

Shipping prices have increased because of droughts last year affecting the canal locks, forcing Panama to drastically cut shipping traffic through the canal and raise rates to use it. Though the ...

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.

The Panama Canal is one component of a system ... Water from the lake flows through a series of canal locks that function like ladders. The locks are needed to lift ships from the coast up into ...

Here's a look at how we got here: What is the canal? It is a man-made waterway that uses a series of locks and reservoirs over 51 miles (82 kilometers) to cut through the middle of Panama and ...