Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez ...
The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and ...
A canal across Panama would save incalculable miles and ... Colonel George Washington Goethals, an Army engineer with experience building lock-type canals, assumed the Chief Engineer's post.
Nicaragua invites Russia to take part in a project to build a new canal between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. This ...
Writing for Al Jazeera, Belén Fernández said building the Panama Canal in the first place “encapsulated the recklessness and hubris of man’s efforts to dominate nature”. Panama might prove ...
Thousands of people surround the Canal Administration building at midday on December 31, 1999.
None of the options are easy. One possibility that canal authorities are studying is building a dam on the river Indio, in the province of Coclé in central Panama. But this could displace ...
After a prolonged closure for extensive renovations, one of San Diego’s most recognizable landmarks in the Balboa Park ...
The Panama Canal has experienced a 29% decrease in ship ... noting that the United States had considered building a Nicaraguan canal as far back as 1854. Environmental and financial analysts ...
the building of a Nicaragua canal or a Colombian dry canal cannot step in as an insurance against supply chain disruptions centered around the Panama Canal,” Sand said. The current drought in ...
Canal Authority plans massive dam to secure freshwater for locks Project could face opposition from local communities and activists Severe drought in the past year restricted vessel traffic on the ...
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 ...