Forty percent of all U.S. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal's locks every year and a total $270 billion in ...

Filling the reservoir would submerge about 17.7 square miles of land, currently home to more than 2,000 Panamanians, ...

Take a deep dive into the world’s busiest shipping lanes according to the number of vessels passing through them each day.

The Panama Canal Authority (APC ... This increase includes 10 Neopanamax crossings (larger locks) and 25 Panamax crossings (smaller locks). Higher rainfall at Gatún Lake, the principal water ...

The canal's locks act as a kind of elevator, using enormous amounts of water released from artificial lakes at the top of mountains to raise the vessels, explains Mahelis de García, a Panama ...

One obvious measure involves water conservation. The Panama Canal works by transiting boats through a series of above-sea-level locks fed by Lake Gatún and the smaller Lake Alajuela. Each ship ...

The chokepoint at the Panama Canal could be approaching an end as ... added three extra slots per day at its panamax locks, taking the total daily maximum transits to 27, still more than 10 ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP ... while panamax ships (those that pass through the century-old smaller locks) would amount to 24. As of June 1, the former category will be increased to 8 ...

Jorge Luis Quijano former Panama Canal administrator from 2012 to 2019 vividly recalled the historic moment in December 1999 ...