Panama Canal Authority to build, grant concessions for two new ports

The Panama Canal Authority plans to move ahead with construction and concession of two new port terminals, with an estimated ...
NBC Connecticut

U.S. Trade Dominates Panama Canal Traffic. New Restrictions Due to ‘Severe' Drought Are Threatening the Future of the Shipping Route

The Panama Canal Authority (PCA) is informing customers their latest conservation efforts to save water will include reducing the number of daily transits mostly in its Panamax locks to 32 to 30 ...
UPI

Panama Canal denies Trump admin. claim U.S. gov't vessels can now transit for free

Feb. 6 (UPI) --The Panama Canal Authority late Wednesday said it has made no change to its tolls or other fees, denying the Trump administration claim that it has agreed to no longer charge U.S.
The Atlantic

Nicaragua Reveals Route for Very Own Panama Canal

Many hopes in Nicaragua are pinned to a plan to build a $40 billion, 173-mile route that will bring shipping from the Caribbean Sea through to the Pacific Ocean and lift the Central American country ...
Megaprojects on MSN

How Mexico Hopes to Link Oceans Without a Canal

Across the narrow waist of southern Mexico, we look at how the Interoceanic Corridor aims to create a modern trade route to ...
The Impossible Build on MSN

Mexico’s $4.5 Billion Mega Project to Rival the Panama Canal

Mexico launches a bold $4.5BN infrastructure plan aiming to rival the Panama Canal and reshape global shipping routes ...
WTOP News

PHOTO ESSAY: Tracing pre-canal Panama’s forgotten crossings and colonial routes

PANAMA CITY (AP) — For centuries, Panama served as a natural bridge for global trade. Mule trains hauled treasure over stone-paved trails, riverboats floated gold and silver down the Chagres River to ...