Second floor. The Panama Canal. The world’s largest lock doors close behind me, heralding the start of a 12-hour transit across the isthmus of the Americas – the crossing of a continent by boat.

USS Missouri (BB-63) in the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, 13 October 1945, while en route from the Pacific to New York City to take part in Navy Day celebrations. Note the close fit of the ship in ...

The Gatun Locks consists of three steps or pairs of chambers, there is one step at Pedro Miguel and two at Miraflores, making six pairs, 12 chambers in all. The locks have been called the "structural ...

Panama Canal opens new $5 billion locks — and officials are bullish despite global shipping woes The project went online nearly two years late after construction delays and labour strife, but ...

Thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal every year, but few imagine what happens when one of its locks needs to be repaired. The Pedro Miguel locks, one of the original structures built by the ...