A Panama Canal worker docks the Chinese container ship Cosco at the Panama Canals' Cocoli locks, in Panama City, Dec. 3, 2018. Florida International University convened its 10th annual Hemispheric ...

Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal is a marvel of modern engineering. An artificial 51-mile waterway that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama, the Canal connects the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea ...

In 2007, the Panama Canal Authority began a major expansion to cut a third channel and set of locks and double the total capacity of the canal by allowing it to accommodate the world’s largest ...

But the so-called ‘Miami of Central America’ has a hidden history — one that extends far beyond the canal that first put it on most travellers’ mental map. Panama is effectively a ...

Panama opened the long-delayed US$5.4 billion expansion of its shipping canal amid cheering crowds on Sunday, despite looming economic uncertainty in the shipping industry and a heated battle over ...

the construction of the country’s first metro tunnel beneath the Panama Canal is well underway. This unprecedented project will connect Panama City with the western suburbs of Arraiján and eventually ...

President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. “American Ships, both Military and Commercial ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stressed that “the Panama Canal and the canal areas cannot and will not be controlled by China.” “China’s military has too large of a presence in the Western ...

1) The Panama Canal is a chokepoint for global trade. Today, the canal handles 5 percent of all maritime trade and 40 percent of all U.S. container ship traffic. It was originally built by the U.S ...

Thousands of Panamanians marched in the capital Tuesday in the largest protest yet against an agreement signed during last month's visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, giving U.S. troops ...

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