Visiting congressmen review a map of the canal, Courtesy ... I am commanding the Army of Panama, and the enemy we are going to combat is the Culebra Cut and the locks and dams at both ends ...

It’s “basically a water elevator,” said Ilya Espino de Marotta, deputy administrator of the Panama Canal Authority. A system of interconnecting locks raises ships around 26 meters (85 feet ...

The Panama Canal Authority ... some 1,920 ports worldwide. The canal, used mainly by customers from the United States, China, and Japan, has a system of locks to raise and lower ships.

In the years after the canal was handed over to Panama, it invested more than US$5 billion into widening work, which culminated in the opening of the canal's third set of locks in 2016.

The Marshall Islands cargo ship Cape Hellas (L) and the Portuguese cargo ship MSC Elma sail on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on December 28 ...

offering a live demonstration of Seattle's maritime lifestyle (many have compared the locks to a miniature version of the Panama Canal). After you've watched a couple barges pass by, head to the ...

Under Panama's administration, significant efforts were made to expand the canal to accommodate modern shipping needs, especially as older locks struggled to handle larger vessels. The canal's ...

A cargo ship in one of the locks of the Panama Canal. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP/Getty Images) In his speech, Trump said the U.S. will attempt to reassert control over the Panama Canal, claiming that ...