Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Panama Canal carries cargo ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, cutting weeks off shipping time. Danny Lehman/The ...

Panama Canal officials say a new reservoir needed to meet the growing water demands of the heavily trafficked waterway would take six years to construct at an estimated cost of $1.6 billion. In a ...

For over 100 years, the Panama Canal has been a staple of world trade, allowing cargo ships to avoid the long, tricky route around the southernmost tip of South America. Now things may have to change.

An ambitious $2-billion effort by the Panama Canal Authority to address the historic waterway’s dwindling freshwater supply has been restarted with a new tender set for release within two years. The ...

The Panama Canal has avoided the worst of a shipping crunch that threatened to upend the global economy—but at a cost to marine life and the Latin American country's supplies of drinking water. After ...

Stricken by lack of water, the Panama Canal will maintain restrictions on ship passages for one year, a measure that has congested access to the route used by 6% of global maritime trade. “Right now ...

An “unprecedented drought” is affecting the Panama Canal’s water supply and leading authorities to impose surcharges and weight limits on ships traversing the key global trade route, according to the ...

The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal ...