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 ...

But the Canal represents much more than a strategic maritime route. To visualize its importance, imagine the Cocoli Locks, where enormous container ships wait their turn to transit. Panamanian ...

The US imported workers to build the canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks designed by the US Army Corps of Engineers raised ships from ocean level to Gatun Lake ...

Russia warned President Trump on Tuesday against seizing the Panama Canal, after he reiterated his intent to take control of the strategic waterway in his second inaugural address Monday.

It is a hugely valuable U.S. trade route. The canal uses locks at each end to lift ships up to a freshwater lake 85 feet above sea level and then lower them again at the other end. The canal runs ...

said he doubts the United States could easily run the canal because it takes 12 years of training for an engineer to learn the complicated system of locks and water elevators that route giant ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday expressed alarm at China's influence on the Panama Canal, which President Donald Trump has vowed the United States ...

Does China control the canal? Claim: Trump said, "China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama." DW Fact check: False Donald Trump often claimed that ...

Panama’s control of the canal that bears its name should not be returned to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s calls of “we’re taking it back,” Panamanians say. Although most people ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and ...