THE Panama Canal and US Subic Naval Base were constructed around the same time the US was rising as an imperial naval power ...

A multibillion-dollar expansion helped the canal accommodate king-size cargo ships. It might also be fueling ecological ...

With US President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly threatening to take control of the Panama Canal, and the Panamanian government insisting that its sovereignty of the waterway is "non-negotiable," the ...

Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade. To imagine the kind of future a hotter, ...

The U.S. Navy, in anticipation of a war in East Asia, would use the canal to move ships and submarines from the Atlantic to ...

On this strategic question, the president-elect and Ronald Reagan are in agreement.

The system handles dozens of ships a day, using gates, locks and reservoirs fed from an artificial lake to lift the vessels up some 26 meters (85 feet) and bring them down again to sea level.

The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway that cuts through central Panama for 51 miles, using a system of locks and reservoirs to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This route saves ships from ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama ... were capable of traversing the canal’s lock system. While today’s ships ...

President-elect Donald Trump says Panama charges the United States too much for letting ships use the canal. Panama says ...

System of locks - Unlike Egypt's Suez Canal, the Panama Canal operates using freshwater stored in two reservoirs. A drought led to a reduction in the number of transits in 2023, but the situation ...