Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American ...

A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... get raised and lowered? The canal has a water lock system that acts like a massive ...

are too big to pass through the canal's lock system. By 2011, 37% of the world's container ships are estimated to be Post-Panamax. Under the 2007 construction plan, the Panama Canal Authority is ...

This animation of the locks system of the Panama Canal demonstrates how a ship would travel across the Panamanian Isthmus. This "lake and lock" canal was favored by Theodore Roosevelt, who Chief ...

Long periods of drought and the excessive consumption of fresh water for the Panama Canal lock system jeopardise the water supply in large parts of the country.Image: Java They regularly pump as ...

A cargo ship transits through the Panama Canal's Cocolí Locks in Panama City, Panama, on February 21, 2025. MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP US troops will be able to deploy a string of bases along the ...