A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back
The U.S. helped engineer Panama's independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control ...
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How the Groundbreaking Suez Canal Forever Transformed the World's Shipping Routes
necessitating a massive system of locks that engineers were not yet equipped to build. The project was abandoned. Over half a century later, the idea came back into vogue with the Suez Canal ...
The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide
The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated ...
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Suez Canal: Owner of cargo ship blocking waterway apologises
The Japanese owner of the giant cargo ship that has been blocking Egypt's Suez Canal since Tuesday has apologised for the disruption to global trade. Shoei Kisen Kaisha said it was trying to ...
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Suez toll revenue drops 60%; canal tests two-way traffic
Suez Canal revenues have suffered an abrupt 60% decline y/y as vessel operators divert services away from the Red Sea.
Five things to know about Panama Canal, in Trump's sights
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to demand control of the Panama Canal be returned to Washington, complaining ...
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TR and the Panama Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... the push for a "lake and lock" canal, favored by Roosevelt, succeeded. Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the ...