The Panama Canal carries cargo ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, cutting weeks off shipping time. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images The Panama Canal is one of the most ...

The COSCO Shipping Panama cargo ship prepares to enter the new Cocoli locks, part of the new Panama Canal expansion project, in Panama City, Sunday, June 26, 2016. Authorities are hosting a big bash ...

“The plans for the Panama Canal expansion project will continue to underpin investment growth in the coming years,” says Theresa Paiz-Fredel, a senior director in Fitch’s Latin America sovereign group ...

At least 2,500 people would be relocated Residents back alternate project that does not require relocations Plan would increase canal transit capacity by up to 15 ships a day PANAMA CITY, July 31 ...

Construction workers install a sluice in the expansion project of the Panama Canal in Panama City. When completed, new locks will accommodate container ships that are about one-and-a-half times larger ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama - The economic downturn has stalled big construction projects across the globe, but in Panama, smoke-belching steam shovels and dredges work around the clock on what people here ...

Prior to the origination of the plans for the Panama Canal vessels of trade had few options of getting goods from Europe and Asia to N. America. One was to sail around the southern tip of South ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Communities in Panama affected by a $1.6 billion project by the Panama Canal to build a massive new water reservoir on Thursday introduced a lawsuit before the Supreme Court ...

Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to build a $1.6 billion reservoir filed a Supreme Court challenge on Thursday, saying the project intended to enable ...