Rabbi Shlomo Nissim Poliwoda, Shliach in the Clayton / Panama Canal area, led a groundbreaking project recently: printing the Tanya on a boat, while cruising through the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed attempts, deadly tropical diseases, and engineering challenges turned this ...

China's interest in building a canal in Nicaragua is driven by geopolitical, rather than purely economic, motives. While the idea of another canal in Central America has been discussed for centuries, ...

Panama Canal representatives explain to locals how a proposed dam project in the Indio River that aims to secure the canal's uninterrupted operation would affect the future of El Jobo, Panama ...

The Panama Canal expects to complete a billion-dollar construction of a new water reservoir within six years that will help ensure the passage of 36 ships a day, the administrator of the global ...

Photographer Andrew Kaufman's book, "The Isthmus," looks at the Panama Canal expansion project and life in Panama. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

The project involves building a third set of locks on the Canal. It is being headed by Italy's Salini Impregilo and Spain's Sacyr, and should open on April 1, 2016.

Cargo ships wait to transit the Panama Canal in Panama City, on June 28. A recent court ruling could permit the construction of a new $1.6 billion reservoir to feed the water-starved Panama Canal.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — It was supposed to be a grand celebration of the engineering triumph that forged a nation. Instead, the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal's opening Friday is being marred ...

The Panama Canal gets a $5.25B makeover 03:49. The French started digging the canal in the early 1880s. But several years later, after engineering setbacks and an estimated 20,000 worker deaths ...

The giant Panama Canal expansion opens June 26 amid much fanfare and one of the worst shipping industry slumps ever. While it won’t do anything to help the dire state of the industry near-term ...

Panama project: Promise and peril. New reservoir to support canal could change village life. October 27, 2024 at 2:37 a.m. by ALMA SOLIS The Associated Press ...