Explore the workings of the Panama Canal, including its history, the construction of the Gatún Dam, and the challenges faced at Culebra Cut. Discover the functionality of the giant locks, recent ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s president moved to assure the public on Friday that critical ports at both ends of the Panama Canal will continue to operate without interruption — a day after the ...

I grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Our town’s name described what made us unique — we had locks on the Connecticut River. Ever since I was a kid, I have understood how locks worked, and I always ...

The transit through the 51-mile path of the Panama Canal typically takes just nine hours The Panama Canal, which slices through the North and South American continents, carving a 51-mile path between ...

A Panama Canal cruise checks a lot of boxes for senior travelers: itineraries promise warm weather, a culturally-rich region and one of the world’s great engineering spectacles. Most cruises are ...

WASHINGTON — In 2023, Panama experienced one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, and it severely depleted water available to the Panama Canal, so much that it decreased shipping by 30%. A ...

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The Panama Canal has faced severe drought conditions in recent years and the Panama Canal Authority is moving forward with plans to mitigate climate impacts and keep the flow of global trade moving.

About 14,000 vessels transit the Panama Canal annually including about 40% of all U.S. container traffic. But recent droughts have plagued the artery. A drought in 2023 and 2024 forced the canal’s ...

The Panama Canal will take in about $400 million less in the next fiscal year due to a drop in ship traffic caused by global economic “uncertainty,” the canal authority warned Tuesday. For the ...

Panama -- Gay with bunting, both inside and out, the steamship Ancon, of 10,000 tons registry, started early today on the first voyage of a big ocean going steamship through the Panama Canal. The ...