Discover the incredible progress of the new canal project that promises to reshape South America’s trade routes and challenge the dominance of the Panama Canal. This ambitious infrastructure endeavor ...

The Panama Canal's strategic importance has largely flown under the public radar. Handling 5% of global trade and serving as a vital conduit for the U.S. Navy, the canal is essential ...

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, ... a dangerous jungle route many migrants take crossing on foot out of South America on their way to ...

The canal connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, offering ships a shortcut to avoid going around the tip of South America. The canal revolutionized shipping traffic in the region.

PANAMA CITY — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to ... It spares ships having to go an additional roughly 7,000 miles to sail around Cape Horn at South America ...

Panama's voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.

Experts in both countries are clear: Unless he goes to war with Panama, Trump can’t reassert control over a canal the U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.

The U.S. helped engineer Panama's independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control to Panama in 1999.