President José Mulino said Panama's sovereignty over the world's second busiest waterway is not up for discussion.

Panamanian officials offer concessions on Rubio’s first overseas stop, but say they cannot negotiate on control of the ...

US President Donald Trump issues a bold warning, claiming China has gained undue influence over the strategic waterway.

State Department - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told top Panamanian leaders Sunday that China is exerting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first official trip abroad next week to Central America, ...

(AP Photo, File) FILE - A cargo ship sails through the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal, in Panama City, on Sept. 9, 2024 ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

US President Donald Trump said the US would take back the Panama Canal ... by the canal. A severe drought in the region of the canal, which uses freshwater to operate its locks, pushed up the ...

(CNN) — Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama ... canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks designed by the US Army Corps of Engineers raised ships from ocean level ...

If you are desperate to see the canal in action but can’t make it to Panama, the ACP livestreams activity at five sets of locks, and the canal runs 24 hours a day. To do a deeper dive into the ...

Roughly 5% of all global trade flows through the canal’s 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch each year, with the largest chunk being cargo heading between the East Coast of the United States and Asia.