PANAMA CITY (AP) – A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which are set for a test run this week and a formal launch June 26. Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was ...

A tugboat leads the Neopanamax cargo ship, Cosco Shipping Panama, as it approaches the new Agua Clara locks, near the port city of Colon, Panama, Sunday June 26, 2016. The Chinese ship carrying more ...

The Panama Canal locks are due to be bigger than ever in 2014 as the inter-ocean route observes its 100th anniversary. They will be able to handle ships carrying as many as 12,600 containers each 20 ...

The Panama Canal Authority plans to move ahead with construction and concession of two new port terminals, with an estimated investment of $2.6 billion.

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 has incorporated two new 27-meter tugboats into its fleet. The vessels will assist ships during lock entry and exit maneuvers, as well as during their passage through the Culebra Cut, ...

The Panama Canal Administrator, Dr. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, delivered the 43rd Annual William A. Patterson Distinguished Transportation Lecture at Northwestern University this week, in which he laid ...

The Panama Canal once connected the world - now it’s falling apart. After more than a century, the locks are breaking, the ...