On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Before the canal, ships had to sail 13,000 miles around the tip of South America An artificial lake across Panama connects the oceans.

The project would require up to $1.4 billion in funding, as the canal's authority seeks ways to mitigate future potential ...

Unlike the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal is fed by a freshwater lake ... worth of cargo that flows through the Atlantic-Pacific shortcut annually. They've had to introduce water-saving measures ...

The Panama Canal Authority recently moved to a long-term booking system for shipping slots, which has made it easier to ...

Upon completion, the port will have the capacity to handle more than five million TEUs within a 120-hectare area at the Canal’s entrance to the Pacific The Panama Canal Board of Directors this ...

The Panama Canal Authority reported a 29% drop in vessel transits during fiscal year 2024, with LNG and dry bulk shipments ...

Vessels in queue for transit across the Panama ... Panama canal are ballasting decreasingly towards the US Gulf and the Caribbean. This change in tanker behavior could further support Atlantic ...

Traffic in the Panama Canal fell ... to climate change, the canal's operator said late Tuesday. The volume of cargo shipped through the canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was ...

Why did the Panama Canal get a $5 billion facelift? The Panama Canal, a century-old shortcut connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans for global trade, carries a third of the trade from Asia to ...