The Panamax lanes do not have the water-recapturing ability of the Neo-Panamax locks. Despite competition from the Suez Canal ...

Visiting congressmen review a map of the canal, Courtesy ... I am commanding the Army of Panama, and the enemy we are going to combat is the Culebra Cut and the locks and dams at both ends ...

They deem a Panama canal too expensive and propose a canal in Nicaragua with 12 locks at either end and 10 miles of aqueducts to supply water to the summit level. May 29, 1879: The French Attempt ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP ... at the nearby Alajuela and Gatun artificial lakes feeding the locks. Unlike the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal runs on fresh water. The ensuing constraints ...

One obvious measure involves water conservation. The Panama Canal works by transiting boats through a series of above-sea-level locks fed by Lake Gatún and the smaller Lake Alajuela. Each ship ...

EL JOBO, Panama — A long ... Last year, the canal authority reduced the number of ships that could cross daily by about 20% ...

The Panama Canal Authority could double in coming years the number of containers that move through the commercial waterway that ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -The Panama Canal's profit increased about 9.5% ... The waterway handled 423 million tons of cargo through its locks and saw passage of 27.3 ships per day on average, down ...

The Panama Canal aims to regain vessel traffic carrying U.S. liquefied natural gas to Asia as demand in that market rises and a new reservation system allows shippers to lock in slots, following a 65% ...