Building the canal cost about $375 million, making it the most expensive construction project in U.S. history at that time, according to the Panama Canal Authority. Thousands of laborers died ...

Depending on the size, weight, and type of vessel, ship owners often pay anywhere between $15,000 and $300,000 in basic fees ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino urged member nations at the Mercosur Summit in Buenos Aires, to back the Río Indio ...

It is the Panama Canal Administration Building, a stately, tile-roofed structure that sits atop a pyramid-shaped hill near the Pacific end of the canal. It was inaugurated in 1914 as the ...

PANAMA CANAL, Panama -- It's barely an hour after daybreak when the Celebrity Millennium enters Balboa Harbor near Panama City, ... In addition to building giant locks near both oceans, ...

How many Americans died building the Panama Canal? “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the ...

The Panama Canal is doing quite well, Donald Trump beamed in June 2017 during one of his earliest ... He’s always been that; it’s what he’s done for a living, building things, ...

The Panama Canal needs more water. ... Humans have been building dams for thousands of years, but such mega dam projects are a hallmark of economic development in modern times.

The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that would help fill the gap. WSJ explores whether it ...

On Dec. 31, 1999, the U.S. relinquished control of the canal to Panama under a treaty negotiated by President Jimmy Carter and ratified by the Senate in 1978 in what Trump has called “a terrible ...

So Panama is looking for ways to get more water to the canal, and they've chosen this spot. A place Digna, Olegario and more than 2,000 others call home. Digna looks out at the field where the ...