(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) The Panama Canal is going through a favorable period thanks to a combination of sporadic rainfall during the first three months of the year and efficient management of the ...

The Panama Canal provides a short cut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for 6% of the world’s maritime commerce. At its maximum capacity between 38 and 40 ships can pass through the canal each ...

The ACP wants to develop new Pacific and Atlantic transshipment hubs to boost capacity and counter growing U.S.-China ...

Water-saving basins at Agua Clara Locks, Gatún, Canal de Panamá Credit: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), via Wikimedia Commons CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader ...

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Even with the water-saving basins incorporated into the new set of locks, more than 50 million gallons of freshwater is lost from the Panama Canal with every ship's passage. A drought of historic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This area was entirely submerged when ...

TAKE IN THE view from atop Gatun dam and fathom what is missing. Container ships float idly on Lake Gatun, near the midpoint of the Panama Canal, awaiting passage to the Caribbean sea, their gateway ...

Panama -- Gay with bunting, both inside and out, the steamship Ancon, of 10,000 tons registry, started early today on the first voyage of a big ocean going steamship through the Panama Canal. The ...

Thirty species of Cancellariidae in 11 genera from the Miocene Gatun Formation in the Panama Canal area, Caribbean Panama, are discussed including two species not represented by specimens suitable for ...