The Expanded Panama Canal, now 15 months old, is exceeding expectations and is impacting trade routes for importers and exporters. The Panama Canal Authority said in the 2018 fiscal year that began ...

This story appears in the Feb. 20 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. The expansion of the Panama Canal will have the greatest effect on shipments to a handful of states ...

“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 ...

After many delays, the larger locks of the Panama Canal opened this weekend, allowing larger ships carrying intermodal shipping containers coming from Asia to access East Coast and Southeast ports.

On August 11, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) breathed a sigh of relief when the main contractor for the New Third Set of Locks Project, Grupo Unidos por el Canal, reached an agreement with the ...

The five international financial institutions partially financing the Panama Canal Expansion Program traveled to Panama earlier this week to see the 96.6 percent progress made thus far. During their ...

Magdalena Martínez has always lived on the banks of the Indio River. But her house will be submerged by a new reservoir for the Panama Canal, and like her neighbors, she plans to resist until the end.

The $5 billion Panama Canal expansion (Panamax) opened in late June 2016, making direct access of larger ships from China and elsewhere to America’s East Coast ports more expedient. But well before ...

Brazilian farmers in top soy state Mato Grosso signed a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority to evaluate ways to cut transportation costs and boost Brazilian grain volumes using ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Panama's new leader, to be elected Sunday, will have a historic decision to make: Should Panama launch a multibillion dollar canal expansion project aimed at keeping the ...