Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' ...

The cause? Drought. The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway around 82 kilometres long with locks that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean for shipping, saving it the much longer ...

The Panama Canal Authority shortened the chamber size in some of its locks to use less water for smaller vessels and minimized direction changes. In January 2025, the authority approved plans to ...

have naturally directed the attention of the government once more to the question of the proper width to be given to the locks of the Panama Canal. It is the locks that determine the capacity of ...

Shipping prices have increased because of droughts last year affecting the canal locks, forcing Panama to drastically cut ...