Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is in Panama this week on a mission centered around the Central American nation’s storied canal, ...

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. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gatun locks mark Atlantic side of Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority took a first step in the $3.35–billion effort to construct a new set of locks, with the Aug. 28 release of a request for ...

The Panama Canal, which slices through the North and South American continents, carving a 51-mile path between the east and ...

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Add Carnival to the list of cruise lines that soon will be sending a ship through the Panama Canal's new, larger locks. The Miami-based cruise giant on Thursday said its 3,006-passenger Carnival ...

A new era for Panama Canal cruises kicked off over the weekend as a passenger vessel transited the waterway's new, bigger locks for the first time. Disney Cruise Line's 83,308-ton Disney Wonder passed ...

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Panama, for all its charms, is perhaps best known to U.S. travelers as a place to pass through on their way to somewhere else, whether via its famed, century-old canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific ...