Why is the canal key for the U.S.? The Panama Canal, an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, saves ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel.
Without the ability for U.S. military ships to transit through the Panama Canal, the eastern Pacific risks becoming an unregulated “Wild West.” There’s just no way for the Coast Guard to ...
A Senate panel on Jan. 28 took aim at China’s involvement with operations at the Panama Canal and examined President Donald Trump’s economic strategy linked to travel by U.S. ships through the ...
who has repeatedly suggested the U.S. retake the Panama Canal. On the day of his inauguration, Trump claimed that U.S. ships were being “severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way ...