The Panama Canal celebrated its 97 th birthday on August 15 as its massive expansion hums along, as The New York Times reported yesterday. The canal’s expansion, which will allow the volume of ...

MADRID—A consortium in charge of expanding the Panama Canal said Friday that work on the $3.1 billion project has been suspended, pending a response from the Panamanian authorities on its latest ...

The Panama Canal expansion project added a new lane, which allowed a larger number of ships and increased the width and depth of the lanes and locks, which allowed larger ships to pass.

While the canal expansion is expected to exponentially boost East Coast cargo traffic, it also has been a boon to Panama, where a national referendum was held in 2006 to authorize the expansion.

The Panama Canal Authority has completed 96% of the work on its expansion project, which will more than double the critical waterway’s capacity when it is finished and open to vessels later this ...

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

PANAMA CITY — Lofty rhetoric, followed by explosions that blew off parts of a hillside, marked the beginning of a multibillion-dollar expansion of the Panama Canal on Monday. The $5.25-billion ...

When the $5.4 billion expansion project opens Sunday, it will nearly triple the capacity of the original canal, allowing ships carrying up to 14,000 containers a quicker path between Asia and the USA.

The Panama Canal, the essential shipping lane that has for a century connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is undergoing a $5.25 billion expansion effort.

After nearly a century of service, the worldÂs greatest engineering project is getting supersized to handle booming maritime trade. Popular Mechanics goes inside the expansion plans with an in ...

MADRID—A consortium in charge of expanding the Panama Canal said Friday that work on the $3.1 billion project has been suspended, pending a response from the Panamanian authorities on its latest ...

PANAMA CITY — Voters are likely to approve a $5.2-billion project to expand the Panama Canal today, according to polls, despite warnings of an accumulation of debt, competition, technical ...