The average number of vessels that passed through the Panama Canal in December increased to 34.2 per day, according to a notice ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has in recent days repeatedly denounced what he sees as China’s outsized influence on the ...

The administrator of the Panama Canal has responded to criticisms from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, denying that there ...

The US completed the 51-mile (82-kilometer) canal through the Central American isthmus in 1914, but ceded it back to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed by former President Jimmy Carter in 1977 ...

Mr. Trump’s insinuations about Chinese influence, his demands for lower transit fees and his talk of returning the canal to U.S. control have, of course, not won him admiration in Panama ...

Trump has complained in recent weeks about rising charges for ships to transit the canal and suggested the U.S. should take it back. It’s a proposal roundly rejected by Panama President José ...