Call it a new era for Panama Canal cruises. The official opening of the 48-mile-long waterway's massive new locks on Sunday will add a new twist to what long has been a bucket list item for ...

The new locks are also deeper, by 18 feet, all to accommodate bigger, heavier ships. The canal now welcomes ships carrying up to 14,000 containers, a huge boost from the previous capacity of 5,000.

GATUN, Panama — The Panama Canal’s expansion is finally beginning to look like a channel that will float some of the biggest ships in the world by mid-2015.

Princess Cruises has become the first major cruise line to schedule sailings through the massive new locks at the Panama Canal. The company this week said the 3,080-passenger Caribbean Princess ...

PANAMA CITY – The Panama Canal is installing the last of 16 giant lock gates that are a key part of the waterway's multibillion-dollar expansion. Tuesday's installation of the 4,232-ton gate at ...

The new, wider locks on the Panama Canal will open June 26 with the first official transit of a cargo ship, but don’t expect much traffic through them from cruise ships.

The new locks are 1,400 feet long and 180 feet wide. Big container ships are 1,200 feet long and 160 feet wide. Tugboats fore and aft measure nearly 100 feet each.

Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American influence continue to rise.

The Panama Canal’s new, larger locks should open by April as scheduled despite leakage problems, the waterway’s administrator said, but he wants to see steel reinforcements installed before ...

PANAMA CITY — The consortium designing and building the Panama Canal’s new set of expanded locks says they are working at full capacity and ready to receive their first ships.

Panama’s $5 billion investment to expand its century-old canal is paying off as shipping lines send more U.S.-bound cargoes through the passage instead of the Suez Canal.