The vessels are too big to pass through the Panama Canal (even after a $5 billion expansion is completed) or to dock in any U.S. port. The new canal and its infrastructure, from roads to pipelines ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez ...

Europeans had dreamed of a Central American ... extremity of South America. A New York to San Francisco journey measured some 13,000 miles and took months. A canal across Panama would save ...