Ever since 1513, when the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered that Panama was a narrow isthmus between the ...

Oct. 31 (UPI) --The Panama Canal Authority plans to move forward with construction and subsequent concession of two new port terminals, with an estimated investment of $2.6 billion. According to ...

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. Drawing huge ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The Panama Canal has begun a competitive process to select the company that will design, build and operate a pipeline to transport liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), its authority ...