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.

The Panama Canal Authority announced that the contractor building new locks for the expanded waterway agreed to restart its construction project Feb. 20.

The canal uses rainwater to move ships through the locks, which work like elevators to raise vessels by up to 85 feet (26 meters) above sea level as they transit across the isthmus’s continental ...

An animation demonstrating the lock system of the Panama Canal. From the program "TR, the Story of Theodore Roosevelt," an animation of the locks system of the Panama Canal demonstrates how a ship ...

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.

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PANAMA CITY (AP) — The administrator of the Panama Canal says work will resume Thursday on a major expansion of the canal two weeks after it was halted over a disagreement with a contractor on ...

A cargo ship navigates through the Panama Canal in the area of the Cocoli Locks, in Panama City, Aug. 25, 2023. Ivan Pisarenko/AFP via Getty Images, FILE RIVERS: Sure.

“These Panama Canal locks are more than 100 years old, and our maintenance plan is designed to extend their life for another 100 years,” Miguel Lorenzo, vice president of infrastructure and ...