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 ...

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 – 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, 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 – The consortium designing and building the Panama Canal's new set of expanded locks says they are working at full capacity and ready to receive their first ships. Grupo Unidos por el ...

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 ...

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 ...

The official opening of the 48-mile-long waterway's massive new locks on Sunday will add a new twist to what long has been a bucket list item for cruising fans. Some lines will begin using the new ...

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 ...