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 ...

The COSCO Shipping Panama cargo ship prepares to enter the new Cocoli locks, part of the new Panama Canal expansion project, in Panama City, Sunday, June 26, 2016. Authorities are hosting a big bash ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama - The economic downturn has stalled big construction projects across the globe, but in Panama, smoke-belching steam shovels and dredges work around the clock on what people here ...

At least 2,500 people would be relocated Residents back alternate project that does not require relocations Plan would increase canal transit capacity by up to 15 ships a day PANAMA CITY, July 31 ...

“The plans for the Panama Canal expansion project will continue to underpin investment growth in the coming years,” says Theresa Paiz-Fredel, a senior director in Fitch’s Latin America sovereign group ...

Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to build a $1.6 billion reservoir filed a Supreme Court challenge on Thursday, saying the project intended to enable ...