Built and once controlled by the U.S., the canal is now owned by Panama, which charges fees for passage. “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

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

The Panama Canal was built for our military. I'm not going to commit to that. It may be that you'll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China.

President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that has been rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the ...

My point was that having built the Panama Canal, the United States had more right to it than the Russians did to the straits between the Black and Mediterranean Seas, which they did not build ...

An effort to establish a canal through Panama led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built Egypt’s Suez Canal, began in 1880 but progressed little over nine years before going bankrupt. Advertisement ...

At the time it was built, the canal was an engineering marvel, relying on a series of locks that lift ships – and their thousands of pounds of cargo – above mountains. But thousands of workers ...

The Panama Canal, opened 100 years ago,, is lauded as an achievement for the U.S. But with the opportunity to unlock America’s economic power, came soaring costs, engineering problems and a ...

The Panama Canal, an 82-km ... Before it was built, ships had to make the long journey around the stormy tip of South America in order to travel by sea between the two oceans.

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.