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

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

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 ...

They deem a Panama canal too expensive and propose a canal in Nicaragua with 12 locks at either end and 10 miles of aqueducts to supply water to the summit level. May 29, 1879: The French Attempt ...

The Panama Canal greatly reduces the time and ... the rainfall-fed reservoir that is the main source of water used in the canal's lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels ...

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 ...

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