The Suez Canal is growing by up to 10 km in length in its Small Bitter Lakes segment which will enable it to handle six to ...

Diverting shipping away from the Suez Canal cost Egypt nearly $7bn this year as revenues dropped by 60% year over year. The ...

President-elect Donald Trump says Panama charges the United States too much for letting ships use the canal. Panama says ...

Click through this gallery and find out how they built the Suez Canal in the first place, and learn about the problems it faces today. You may also like: ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the ...

The U.S. helped Panama secede from Colombia in 1903 to build the passage that now carries more than 10,000 ships a year.

What began as a French project in 1880 under the leadership of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had built the Suez Canal, soon fell apart due to unforeseen difficulties. Americans stepped in to complete ...

An effort to establish a canal through Panama led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built Egypt's Suez Canal, began in 1880 but progressed little over nine years before going bankrupt. Malaria ...

The Panama Canal and the Suez Canal are considered the world's two most important waterways. The U.S. built the canal and operated it until a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 ...