Photographer Andrew Kaufman's book, "The Isthmus," looks at the Panama Canal expansion project and life in Panama.

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 century-old Panama Canal is in the midst of an expansion that is meant to keep it in business for many years to come. But can the famed Canal keep up with the container ship-building boom that has ...

This spread shows a half dozen scenes of workers during the Canal Expansion Project. All told there were over 11,000 workers, with a very large percentage of them being from Panama.

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 ...

The much anticipated Panama Canal expansion has promised a great many enhancements for U.S. shippers waiting to book cargo on the new generation of “mega” container vessels. But a few lingering ...

More details on this, as well as what lies behind Trump's "plans" for Greenland, the Panama Canal, and, as strange as it may seem, Canada, are covered in this RBC-Ukraine material.

PANAMA CITY, Panama — Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway’s biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.

I was recently in Panama and spoke with several folks who are working on the Canal’s expansion, slated for completion at the 100th anniversary in 2014. It is a massive undertaking and appears right on ...

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 canal employs 8,000 workers and the expansion is expected to generate as many as 40,000 construction jobs. Unemployment in Panama is 9.5 percent, and 40 percent of the country lives in poverty.

Here's what to know about the United States' involvement with building and operating the Panama Canal.