More than 90 percent of all farms in China are less than 2.5 acres, and the average farm size ... I see a tiny, mud-walled building adjacent to an irrigation canal and ask why an outhouse is ...

Between October 2023 and September 2024, the Canal recorded 11,240 transits—5% of global maritime trade—and each transit uses 200 million liters of fresh water that is ultimately discharged into the ...

PANAMA CITY — A Hong Kong-based company announced Tuesday that it would sell its stake in two ports on the Panama Canal to a U.S.-led consortium, apparently responding to President Donald Trump ...

including $5 billion in debt. The deal has to be approved by Panama's government. The United States built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of commercial ...

Trump has claimed that Carter “foolishly” gave the canal away. The 80km (50-mile) canal handles 5 percent of global maritime trade and 40 percent of US container traffic.

The Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate the ports to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., after President ...

BlackRock on Tuesday announced the purchase of the ports at the Panama Canal that President Donald Trump raised security concerns regarding their connections to China. BlackRock announced the $22. ...

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with a portfolio of investments valued at $11.5 trillion, has agreed to purchase majority stakes in ports on both sides of the Panama Canal from Hong ...

And it is a key part of Panama’s economy. In 2024, the canal earned nearly $5 billion in total profits. According to a study released in December by IDB Invest, 23.6% of Panama’s annual income ...

Walter Hurtado / Bloomberg via Getty Images The ports surrounding the Panama Canal are about to come under American ownership. American asset management giant BlackRock (BLK) and a group of ...

Thus spoke Donald Trump shortly after BlackRock, an American investment firm, announced on March 4th that it would buy two ports on the Panama Canal from ck Hutchison (ckh), their Hong Kong-based ...

"Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals," Trump ...