Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the Panamanian government’s decision to cut back its ... a trip to visit the Panama Canal. Rubio toured the transcontinental passage on Monday during ...

Señor Trump has begun his second term as US president, vowing in his inaugural address to “take back” the Panama Canal ... including the Culebra (or Gaillard) Cut, where engineers blasted ...

The State Department surprised Panama with the announcement that U.S. government ships would pass through the Panama Canal ...

Trump complained at a December political rally about what he said were unfair tolls charged by Panama for passage of U.S. ships through the canal, remarks that in the weeks since have evolved into ...

While Trump’s claim that People’s Liberation Army personnel exercise direct authority over the Panama Canal is inaccurate, his broader assertion that China manipulates the use of the passage ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national ... was to excavate the Culebra Cut through Gamboa and Pedro Miguel. Also called the Gaillard Cut (named for Army engineer Lt. Col.

While Chinese soldiers don’t operate the canal, The Economist noted that China’s economic presence in Panama expanded after the country cut ties with ... upgrades allowed passage of larger ...

After Panama cut ties with Taiwan and switched diplomatic ... US advisers that China could potentially seal off the canal to obstruct the passage of US vessels. China is the second-largest ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has promised to not renew Panama’s contract with China’s Belt and Road initiative and grant US warships free passage thr ...

It allows around 14,000 ships a year to cut out ... The US is the Panama Canal’s biggest customer, responsible for around three-quarters of the traffic who move through the passage each year.

For ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the United States, the canal reduces the journey by 8,000 nautical miles, avoiding the dangerous passage around Cape Horn. 4. The Panama Canal .