More than 100 years later, the artificial canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans still operates around the clock ...

The project, scheduled for completion in 2014, in time for the canal's centennial anniversary, began operation in June 2016. A graphic of the Panama Canal, Courtesy: NASA Since the first ship ...

His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad. Some 50 miles in length, the canal would be less than half as long as the Suez. De Lesseps estimated that the ...