LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE OF THE FRENCH IN PANAMA; Commonsense Rules of Health Disregarded by Those Who Began Work on the Canal -- Description of Three Sections of Colon and Their Reminders of the Past.

all but bankrupted France. Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt sent gunships to Panama’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to support calls ...

Tensions between Panama and the U.S. rose after World War II, especially after the U.S. pressured France and the UK to give up on attempting to retake control of the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1956.

The Panama Railroad, when it opened in 1855, became the primary transportation route across the isthmus. After building the ...

ACP leader joins regulators and industry stakeholders in raising concerns over the MSC-BlackRock acquisition of ports on both ...

The Panama Canal, an 82-km (51-mile ... construction of the canal in the early 20th century, a project begun by France that cost over 25,000 workers' lives. Following pressure from anti-colonial ...

The sale of two ports near the Panama Canal to a global consortium led by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) threatens the ...

In February, the BBC reported that the China Railway Tunnel Group Co. is building an extension to the Panama City Metro under the south side of the canal. The French started construction of the ...

The route for a rival to the Panama Canal rival has been approved by Nicaragua's government, but many still doubt it will ever be built ...