Panama was a province of Colombia when Theodore Roosevelt took up the idea of building a canal after a failed attempt by France. When the Colombian government rejected a new treaty allowing the U.S.

Several freighters, assisted by tugboats, are entering the Panama Canal at Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side. As droughts continue to deplete the Panama Canal’s water levels, the maritime trading hub’s ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez Canal ...

The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that were once rare could become common by the end of the century, greatly ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would cross ...

The great ship churned through the night, knifing the jet-black Caribbean Sea on its approach to a lush, magical land. Dawn broke, the fog started to lift, and then, imperceptibly at first, something ...

A novel laboratory has been created in the Canal Zone. When the Canal was built, Gatun Dam was erected across the valley of the Chagres River. The result was the creation of not only a deep-water ...

Panama -- Gay with bunting, both inside and out, the steamship Ancon, of 10,000 tons registry, started early today on the first voyage of a big ocean going steamship through the Panama Canal. The ...

Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through ...

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Did you know Panama is having one of its driest years on record? I know what you’re thinking: Why should I care? First, a bit of background. The Panama Canal is critical to global trade and the supply ...