That summer, only 8 million cubic meters of earth will be excavated, out of the 120 required for the canal. De Lesseps and a party from France and the United States visit Panama. De Lesseps ...

Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and ...

The most famous waterway in the Americas is running dry. Unlike the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal is fed by a freshwater lake, Lake Gatún, and its water level is falling critically low.

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 ... of earth removed during the canal's construction.

California has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s ...

The Panama Canal is a great feat of 20th-Century engineering. Upon its completion in 1914, this man-made waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans nearly halved the travel time between the ...

The number of crossing vessels was cut down from 38 to 22 on average between July 2023 and May 2024 The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) reported this week a 29.3% drop in passing ships during Fiscal ...

Standing outside one of former General Manuel Noriega’s retreats, I witnessed several ships waiting to pass through the Panama Canal. These included mega vessels carrying cargo and LNG.

Understanding how these assets correlate with supply chain issues, such as the pileup of ships in the Panama Canal due to the region's near-record drought, can help investors make better decisions ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced an increase in draft and daily transits, with the authorized draft raised by another 30 cm on Wednesday to 14.3 m, and will increase to 14.63 m on ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama —Traffic in the Panama Canal fell by 29 percent over the past year due to a severe drought linked to climate change, the canal's operator said late Tuesday. The volume of cargo ...