Items Tagged with 'Panama Canal'

The Panama Canal’s first female administrator, Ilya Espino de Marotta, talks leadership, engineering and equity.

The Panama Canal is about to undertake an $8.5-billion-plus capital improvement plan aimed at creating a Trans-Isthmus Logistics Corridor.

The Panama Canal is bracing for renewed drought risk while surging traffic from Strait of Hormuz disruptions tests water-saving measures and long-term reservoir plans.

First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, began excavating a channel through Central America in 1881.

Rail Baltica, a multinational effort to integrate Baltic Sea nations into Europe’s rail network, is showing progress at various locations along its 870-km route.

The proposed reservoir would take six years to construct allowing the canal to meet its water needs for the next 50 years.

The proposed Rio Indio reservoir would supply Panama's water needs for the next 50 years, officials say.

In long running $271.8-million dispute over concrete standards used in the waterway expansion's new locks, high court ruling goes against its builders group, but other claims are pending, including one against Panama itself.

Proposed $900M project could be completed in five years to alleviate water shortage transit impacts, canal officials say, but the Panama government must first approve measures to enable construction start

The measures come as the Panama Canal officials are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a long-term water conservation plan for the waterway.