The Panama Canal runs on fresh water, which it obtains from the artificial lakes of Gatun and Alhajuela. For every ship that passes through, some 200 million liters of fresh water are discharged ...

South Korean shipping companies are bracing for potential disruptions as U.S. President Donald Trump escalates tensions over the Panama Canal. As one of the world’s most critical maritime trade routes ...

Hong Kong CNN — Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama ... the canal to ease traffic in Panama City. Meanwhile, state-owned COSCO Shipping ...

China has significantly expanded its economic and geopolitical footprint in Latin America, particularly through the ...

Since last year, authorities have had to limit vessel traffic through the canal, which handles about six percent of global maritime trade. At Mexico's narrowest point, linking the Pacific and ...

sovereignty of the Canal Zone at the time of the treaty being in Panama instead of Colombia. The deal was expressed in the Convention for the Construction of a Ship Canal (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty ...

Panama on Thursday rejected ... the ships that pass through the canal. Trump has loudly complained that US vessels are being overcharged to use the shipping route. Mulino said that US government ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who met with Mulino and canal administrators and visited the critical trade route earlier ... based on the ship's displacement tonnage, or the weight of the water ...

Panama's decision to walk away from it was seen as a concession to the U.S. over the canal after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Panamanian leader José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that ...