In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

BIMCO said routes around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn have been perceived as more reliable and flexible.

Opening of the Panama Canal showing American Steamship SS Ancon leaving the west chamber of the upper Gatun locks and entering Gatun Lake, Panama, August 15, 1914. - PhotoQuest/Getty Images The US ...

From its Panama "ports," China can easily conduct direct air and sea drone attacks on ships and canal facilities -- even the locks. Water drones can lay anti-vessel mines, in the oceans or in Gatun ...

I promised a follow-up essay addressing the Panama Canal’s physical ... in the oceans or in Gatun Lake, the interior highland lake that is the lock system’s main water source.

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the administration is moving to counter it.

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

The Danish cargo ship Lars Maersk sails on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on December 28, 2024. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP via Getty Images) After Panama ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino and the canal's operator denied the State Department’s claim that the country would allow U ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under ... An ingenious system of locks designed by the US Army Corps of Engineers raised ships from ocean level to Gatun Lake, the largest ...