A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... lock raises the ships until they're 85 feet above sea level. They then travel across ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened ... in height and strength. The Gatun upper locks, mid-construction, Courtesy ...

Widening the shipping lanes and constructing new, more efficient locks to allow for a third lane of traffic are the top priorities for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), which is striving to meet ...

If you are desperate to see the canal in action but can’t make it to Panama, the ACP livestreams activity at five sets of locks, and the canal runs 24 hours a day. To do a deeper dive into the ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...