BIMCO said routes around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn have been perceived as more reliable and flexible.

The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Before the canal, ships had to sail 13,000 miles around the tip of South America An artificial lake across Panama connects the oceans. The Gatun ...

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) The accident that occurred on Lake Gatun, where a young sailor lost his life after falling from the deck of a ship into the water, has raised alarm bells about the ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...

While Donald Trump’s talk of taking back the Panama Canal has been keeping Secretary of State Marco Rubio busy, tonnage ...

In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches. *Most ...

The project was suspended in 1889 after money ran out and an estimated 20,000 lives were lost. The Danish cargo ship Lars Maersk sails on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in 1999, as "a foolish gift that should have never been made".

At the Gamboa Rainforest Reserve, you’ll get on a boat and be taken into the heart of Gatun Lake. Gatun Lake is a large man-made lake located on the northern side of the country. It’s part of ...