PANAMA CITY – Fireworks exploded as a huge container ship made an inaugural passage through the newly expanded Panama Canal on Sunday, formally launching the Central American nation’s ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panama Canal is installing the last of 16 giant lock gates that are a key part of the waterway’s multibillion-dollar expansion. Tuesday’s installation of the 4,232-ton gate at ...

Panama City, Feb 13 (EFE).Panama City, Feb 13 (EFE). — The Panama Canal Authority, or ACP, said a successful test was conducted on a section of the new third set of locks where cracks were discovered ...

Panama City, Panama – Panamanian voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a $5.2 billion proposal to expand the country’s national treasure, the Panama Canal. With 96 percent of votes counted, ballots ...

PANAMA CITY – Squeezing the hulking container ships known as “Panamaxes” into the Panama Canal’s Miraflores Locks requires a marvel of precision steering and patience. The ships top out at 965 feet ...

GATUN, Panama — The Panama Canal’s expansion is finally beginning to look like a channel that will float some of the biggest ships in the world by mid-2015. About 42 percent of the work on the new ...

From their vantage point in cranes overlooking the Panama Canal, operators scrutinize the century-old walls of one of its locks as the high-pitched siren of a merchant ship resonates from nearby. In ...

PANAMA CITY – The Panama Canal is installing the last of 16 giant lock gates that are a key part of the waterway's multibillion-dollar expansion. Tuesday's installation of the 4,232-ton gate at the ...

Panamaxed out. Larger locks will mean larger vessels will be able to use the canal in 2014. On Friday, four consortia applied for qualification to build the $3.35-billion locks that will be the heart ...

PANAMA CITY – Fireworks exploded as a huge container ship made an inaugural passage through the newly expanded Panama Canal on Sunday, formally launching the Central American nation’s ...

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Now that is has control of the canal, Panama intends to make it a moneymaker. Newsweek magazine called the hand-over “separation anxiety” for the United States, and suggested it might presage nothing ...