Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal ...

President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance ...

Why is the canal key for the U.S.? The Panama Canal, an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, saves ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel.

The ongoing dispute between the US and Panama over control of the Panama Canal intensifies as Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides ... Sign up for it here. When the Panama Canal was unveiled by the United States in 1914, the roughly 50-mile-long waterway ...

"That is sealed. The canal belongs to Panama." The canal, an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and is key to global trade flows, is operated by the ...

The Tuesday hearing delved into security issues and foreign influence on the foremost maritime channel connecting the ...

won the rights to manage two ports — Balboa on the Pacific side and Cristóbal on the Atlantic side. The Trump administration argues that China could use those ports to turn the Panama Canal ...

No. It is run by the Panama Canal Authority. But two of the five ports adjacent to the canal, Balboa and Cristóbal, which sit on the Pacific and Atlantic sides respectively, have since 1996 been ...

Rubio is set to tour the canal later Sunday. The Panama Cana serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. And although the U.S. led the construction of the major waterway ...