The Panama Canal's water levels have been dwindling, and this shift will have significant economic consequences for the ...

French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps directed a team of engineers to construct a sea-level canal in Panama in 1880. The builders encountered tropical heat, heavy rainfall, landslides, and diseases.

It sits about 10 miles west of the edge of Lake Gatún, the enormous freshwater reservoir that feeds the mighty Panama Canal. Río Indio is crucial to ... time of year and very close to a historical low ...

The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

PANAMA CITY — A black ... flow ships up over the middle of the Panamanian isthmus and then down again to sea level. The Panamanian reception was angry. Through Rubio’s visit to Panama City ...

deputy administrator of the Panama Canal Authority. A system of interconnecting locks raises ships around 26 meters (85 feet) above sea level, where they travel through Lake Gatún — one of the ...

Some 70% of the sea traffic that crosses the Panama Canal leaves or goes to U.S. ports. The United States built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of ...

BlackRock will purchase the ports of Cristobal and Balboa on the Atlantic and Pacific ends of the Panama Canal after ...

It’s “basically a water elevator,” said Ilya Espino de Marotta, deputy administrator of the Panama Canal Authority. A system of interconnecting locks raises ships around 26 meters (85 feet) above sea ...