The Navy's decision to stay silent amid the negotiations with Panama makes it difficult to accurately determine just how much ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After completion in 1914, the canal helped turn the United States into an economic ...

The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

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

Vessels able to fit through the Panama Canal were known to shipbuilders as ... sandy terrain at sea level. The French project became an “abysmal failure”, Julie Greene, author of The ...

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

Securing the Canal is hard enough, but securing the entire country and converting it into a low-cost migration barrier will pose a real challenge. At sea, if the Panama Canal is closed ...

He said the Panama Canal is "vital" to the U.S. economy with ... it is a water bridge over a mountainous area that is above sea level," Maffei said. "A trend of worsening droughts in the region ...