Tread The Globe. We're at the Panama Canal - Miraflores Locks - Full time Lapse. Posted: June 11, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. In this episode we visit the world famous Panama Canal.

To Panama Canal officials, ... work on the new locks could start in 2008 and on Gatun Lake in 2011. ... Panamax ships have a clearance of about 2 ft. on either side in the current canal locks.

In 2016, work finished on a huge project to increase capacity and add new locks, allowing mega ships — including US vessels carrying liquified natural gas — to pass through the canal. But the ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...

For Panama Canal visitors, ... the ACP livestreams activity at five sets of locks, and the canal runs 24 hours ... around 92% of the work force today is Panamanian, and the canal touches ...

An enormous amount of water is needed to make the Panama Canal system work, with a single ship requiring more than 50 million gallons. ‘No to the reservoir’ Olegario Hernandez is deeply ...

For the curious traveler contemplating a trip to Panama — also home to rainforests, deserts, volcanoes and more than 1,600 islands — here’s CNN Travel’s guide to how to visit the canal.

For the curious traveler contemplating a trip to Panama — also home to rainforests, deserts, volcanoes and more than 1,600 islands — here’s CNN Travel’s guide to how to visit the canal.