The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that ...

A boat moves along the Chagres River, feeding into Gatún Lake. Credit: Katja Schulz In 2023, Panama experienced one of the ...

S hips that go through the Panama Canal carry about $270 billion worth of cargo annually. In 2023 and 2024, the canal was ...

A Spanish-led consortium working to build a new lock system to accommodate larger ships says it will stop work until a deal is reached. A Spanish-led consortium charged with a multibillion-dollar ...

Thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal every year, but few imagine what happens when one of its locks needs to be repaired. The Pedro Miguel locks, one of the original structures built by the ...

The Panama Canal welcomed a visit from the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama on May 21. Kevin Marino Cabrera visited as part of an institutional outreach tour focused on providing ...

The Panama Canal has managed to ward off a shipping crisis that threatened to upend $270 billion a year in global trade. It did so with careful water management — and a little bit of luck. As parched ...

Some question whether the new locks on the Panama Canal have affected U.S. transport data. Although all changes affect (like a stone thrown into a pond), there is no evidence of any significant ...

The United States and Panama have officially signed a new defense and security pact aimed at reinforcing control over the Panama Canal, a move that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is critical to ...