As the Trump administration negotiates for what it says will be a better deal over the use of the Panama Canal ... won't fit through the canal's relatively narrow locks. "You're basically talking ...

For generations, outsiders had considered the narrow ... Panama’s hands were tied. The US imported workers to build the canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks designed ...

They lived in a narrow strip ... Peng Liyuan, and Panama’s then president, Juan Carlos Varela, and his wife, Lorena Castillo, at the Cocoli Locks in the Panama Canal in 2018.Credit: Getty ...

The Panama Canal is a lock-type canal owned and administered by the Republic of Panama. It connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama ...

In his first speech as America's 47th president on Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump called for the U.S. to gain control of the Panama Canal, stating, "We're taking it back." Without evidence to support his ...

As aircraft carriers got bigger and bigger during and post-World War II, the Canal simply could not handle them. The locks were too small ... including China. This map shows the location of the ...

Visitors wave to passengers aboard a ship as it enters the Miraflores Locks while transiting the Panama Canal on Sept. 21, 2023. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images At the Miraflores Locks — where ...