To Panama Canal officials, the phrase post-Panamax ... per day to fill the locks for passing ships. An expansion plan that included bigger locks with a traditional design would have doubled ...

For the Panama Canal, water-saving measures such as cross-filling, a technique that reuses water in the canal’s locks, and reducing daily transits helped offset the drought’s impact ...

The artificial lake provides the water needed to move ships through the Panama Canal's lock system, and was severely impacted by the months-long drought that occurred throughout 2023. The Indio ...

We have already spent a great deal of money at Panama. We are going to spend a great deal more, whatever be the plan. But if we should spend, say, $250,000,000 in constructing a lock canal that ...

More frequent, intense droughts have put the vital shipping route into crisis mode and pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan ... Panama Canal Authority. A system of interconnecting ...

Panama’s growing urban population also needs drinking water — much of it sourced from the same Lake Gatun that feeds the canal’s locks. “This means that if we do not increase water ...