The century-old Panama Canal is in the midst of an expansion that is meant to keep it in business for many years to come. But can the famed Canal keep up with the container ship-building boom that has ...

This story appears in the Feb. 20 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. The expansion of the Panama Canal will have the greatest effect on shipments to a handful of states ...

PANAMA CITY — Since Ferdinand de Lesseps embarked in 1882 on his quest to cut a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal has had its moments of mystery and despair.

“The plans for the Panama Canal expansion project will continue to underpin investment growth in the coming years,” says Theresa Paiz-Fredel, a senior director in Fitch’s Latin America sovereign group ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) – A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which are set for a test run this week and a formal launch June 26. Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was ...

After many delays, the larger locks of the Panama Canal opened this weekend, allowing larger ships carrying intermodal shipping containers coming from Asia to access East Coast and Southeast ports.

The $5 billion Panama Canal expansion (Panamax) opened in late June 2016, making direct access of larger ships from China and elsewhere to America’s East Coast ports more expedient. But well before ...

The five international financial institutions partially financing the Panama Canal Expansion Program traveled to Panama earlier this week to see the 96.6 percent progress made thus far. During their ...