Commemorate the Panama Canal’s Expansion With These Photos From Its Construction The Panama Canal is opening a third lane to accommodate new mega cargo ships, a feat almost—but not quite—as ...

The PANAMAX Effect – The New Panama Canal Theaster Gates – Real Estate Artist. Activity of this kind is occurring up and down the Eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast in anticipation of the opening of the ...

Every day an armada lurks outside the entrances to the Panama Canal. Several dozen ships, mostly gigantic cargo vessels, wait in these waters for their turn to pass through the fabled, but ...

The latest setback in the canal's expansion came in May, when about 5,000 laborers walked off the job for two weeks as part of a strike over wages by construction workers nationwide.

The administrator of the Panama Canal says work will resume Thursday on a major expansion of the canal two weeks after it was halted over a disagreement with a contractor on $1.6 billion in cost ...

Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was constructed by the United States between 1904 and 1913 at a cost of $375 million, building on an earlier, French-led effort that fizzled out. An ...

For the expansion project, workers have excavated 5.5 billion feet of material and poured 155 million cubic feet of concrete, he said. "It's like building a new canal," Ferreira said during a ...

Panama's president on Monday expressed confidence that a multi-billion dollar Panama Canal expansion will get back on track after a European-led consortium threatened to halt construction unless ...

More than half the $5.25 billion budgeted for the expansion of the Panama Canal -- $3.35 billion -- will be spent on new single-lane, three-step locks at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances, as ...

Commemorate the Panama Canal’s Expansion With These Photos From Its Construction The Panama Canal is opening a third lane to accommodate new mega cargo ships, a feat almost—but not quite—as ...