Construction on the project, which includes a dam, is slated to begin in 2027 and take four years to complete.

Arguing about the canal is a distraction. The canal works well and serves our interests. It’s time to pursue authentic trade opportunities.

More than 2,000 people could be displaced by the construction of the Río Indio dam. The Panama Canal Authority says the dam ...

Data from Project44 suggests that transit times appear to reflect the efficiency of individual ocean carriers rather than any ...

Prior to the origination of the plans for the Panama Canal vessels of trade had few options of getting goods from Europe and ...

Panama and China have denied that China has any direct control over the canal. The Panama Canal Authority is the government agency that has run the canal independently since 1999. The authority ...

which eventually took full control in 1999 through the Panama Canal Authority, an autonomous state agency. The canal now ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to ...

And a couple years ago, Panama had a drought that was so severe, the canal had to reduce traffic by a third, which has a huge impact on global shipping. So the canal authority has been looking for ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to take back the waterway to block what he sees as Beijing’s ...

according to statistics by the Panama Canal Authority. But the demand recovery was not enough to fill the 36 passage slots that remained on offer since September, the data showed, amid toll increases ...

There’s no evidence that China controls the canal, which is run by an independent authority appointed by Panama’s government. Beijing has repeatedly denied that it has interfered in canal ...