Up until recently, modern aircraft carriers like the Nimitz-class and Ford-Class carriers could pass through the Suez canal, but were unable to transit the narrower Panama Canal. In the past ...

And because an aircraft carrier’s worth is directly tied to ... Midway was so great that she could not pass through the Panama Canal. The class was slated for decommissioning, but it was saved ...

Cumulative traffic through the Panama Canal in April 2025 reached 7,083, an increase of 1,653, or 30.4%, compared to the ...

The Panama Canal Authority said Wednesday on an official ... excluding the service’s aircraft carriers, which are too large. Allowing free access would reportedly save the U.S. about $13 million ...

WASHINGTON − A U.S. aircraft carrier collided ... end of the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The other ship involved in the collision, the Panama-flagged ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman transits the Suez Canal, on Dec. 15, 2024 ... and none of its crew were injured in the collision with the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Besiktas-M, ...

Just before midnight on 12 February, the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman collided ... Saying she was flagged in Panama and therefore somehow connected to “retaking that canal” just ...