With the bicentennial of the Erie Canal taking place later this year, the focus of 2025 columns will be on the waterway that ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded that Panama make "immediate changes" to what he calls the "influence and control" of China over the Panama Canal. America's top diplomat said Panama ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the State Department’s assertion that Panama “has agreed to no longer charge fees” to US government vessels transiting the Panama Canal ...

Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt anyone from them and that he was surprised by the U.S ...

President Trump appeared to double down on his threats to seize the Panama Canal, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Panama with an ultimatum from the White House. Photo: Ben Curtis/Asso ...

Panama has denied the U.S. State Department's claim that the country will eliminate fees for U.S. government vessels transiting the Panama Canal, just one day after the State Department initially ...

PANAMA CITY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal Authority said in a statement late on Wednesday that it had not made any changes to charges or rights to cross the canal, after the U.S. State ...

A cargo ship waits at Balboa port before crossing the Panama Canal in Panama City on February 4, 2025. MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP The Panama Canal Authority on Wednesday, February 5, denied it will ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) with Panama Canal Authority administrator Ricaurte Vasquez during a tour at the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on Feb. 2. Photo: Mark ...

(Photo by David Dickstein) 10. Make new friends — or don’t: Whether sailing with nine others, as on a barge cruise with French Country Waterways, or 7,000 aboard an at-capacity Icon of the ...

The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...