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.

More than 2,000 people could be displaced by the construction of the Río Indio dam. The Panama Canal Authority says the dam solves a long-term water shortage problem.

The canal serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and, beyond that, the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Trump has said that the United States needs the Panama Canal for "economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Panama Canal's water levels have been dwindling, and this shift will have significant economic consequences for the region. To combat the change, the Panama government approved the Rio Indio ...

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 ...