PANAMA CITY (AP) — A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which are set for a test run this week and a formal launch June 26. Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was ...
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How Canal Locks Move Ships Across Mountains
From ancient waterways to the modern Panama Canal, locks remain one of the most ingenious engineering systems ever built.
AGUA CLARA, Panama (AP) — Engineers began flooding a newly enlarged section of the Panama Canal on Thursday as authorities prepare to test a series of new locks that will allow the waterway to ...
Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to ...
Thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal every year, but few imagine what happens when one of its locks needs to be repaired. The Pedro Miguel locks, one of the original structures built by the ...
A tugboat leads the Neopanamax cargo ship, Cosco Shipping Panama, as it approaches the new Agua Clara locks, near the port city of Colon, Panama, Sunday June 26, 2016. The Chinese ship carrying more ...
While Trump wages his campaign over port ownership, the canal faces threats no amount of geopolitical pressure can fix ...
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