At the height of the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s ... where almost everything is covered in vegetation.” When the new canal locks are done, much of the exposed geology ...

Widening the shipping lanes and constructing new, more efficient locks to allow for a third lane of traffic are the top priorities for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), which is striving to meet ...

The United States and Panama have officially signed a new defense and security pact aimed at reinforcing control over the Panama Canal, a move that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is ...

Since the Panama Canal connected the Atlantic Ocean to the ... Yet, this critical route now faces a new threat: climate change. The opening of the canal’s locks releases millions of gallons ...

The daunting ascent up the shifting ship was nothing new ... The Panama Canal uses a system of locks that raise and lower ships to overcome the elevation difference between the Atlantic and ...

Every day, dozens of cargo ships pass by blue cranes at a port near the Pacific Ocean entrance ... China-backed projects in Panama that include a canal bridge, a new subway line, a cruise-ship ...

Upon completion, the port will have the capacity to handle more than five million TEUs within a 120-hectare area at the Canal’s entrance to the Pacific The Panama ... of new jobs during its ...

A cargo ship in one of the locks of the ... control over the Panama Canal, claiming that China is giving preferential treatment over the crucial waterway bridging the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic ... to "take it back" if necessary. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, offering a ...