First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -The Panama Canal will soon begin consultations with companies about launching a competitive tender in the first quarter of next year offering two new ports for construction and ...

May 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1494, on his second expedition to the New World, Columbus explored the Caribbean island of Jamaica. In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was ...

The Panama Canal is one of the world’s most important waterways, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and enabling faster global trade. Before its construction, ships had to sail nearly 8,000 ...

Gretchen Sayre, who lives in Zanesville with her husband Kenneth, is proud of her maternal grandfather and has a good reason for doing so. A talented jack-of-all trades, William Taylor, born in Troy, ...

The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to... A look at the human toll of the construction of the ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — 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 ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and ...

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