As Panama assumes the helm of the United Nations Security Council for August, its top envoy is placing maritime security ...

As Panama assumes the helm of the United Nations Security Council for August, its top envoy is placing maritime security ...

Mercifully, the lock-based system – in which the canal rises 85 m on the way up from one coast, crosses the Cordillera, then drops back down 85 m towards the other – meant much less digging ...

In March, during a joint address to Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be “reclaiming” the Panama Canal and “taking it back.” The remarks prompted outrage in ...

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate entangled in U.S.-China tensions appealed for legal protection for businesses ...

Panama’s voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger, modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.

Under Panama’s constitution, the canal is managed by the Panama Canal Authority, with some of the tolls going into the national treasury. The authority said last week that it had deposited almost US$2 ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have declined to unprecedented levels for this time of year ...

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 ...

The Cosco Shipping Panama is a 48.2-metre-wide, 300-metre-long behemoth that is one of the modern New Panamax class of mega-vessels that are seen as the future of global shipping and will now be ...

The number of vessels that transited the Panama Canal, the world's second-busiest waterway, fell to an average of 33.7 per day in March for a total of 1,045 ships that month, according to a ...