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At the time it was built, the canal was an engineering marvel, relying on a series of locks that lift ships – and their thousands of pounds of cargo – above mountains. But thousands of workers ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The first chief engineer of the Panama Canal project, John Findley Wallace, resigned in frustration after only a year on the isthmus. His replacement, John Stevens, lasted just 20 months, but ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 $1.6 ...