To Panama Canal officials ... Gravity funnels water from the basins and Gatun Lake through culverts in the lock walls, filling each chamber with 15 million cu. ft. of water and raising ships ...

Maintenance teams initiated“dry chamber” work on 27 May by fully draining one chamber of the Pedro Miguel Locks. The ...

it returns to sea level via the three-step Gatun Locks before emerging in the Atlantic. The entire process takes just nine hours. 'Mind-boggling' vistas As is the case with many Panama Canal ...

Plus, the largest freighters and cruise ships are too large to fit through the 1910 vintage locks. To fix that, the outfit that runs the canal, the Panama Canal Authority, is mightily expanding ...

The Panama Canal, once an engineering marvel that revolutionized global trade, is now facing an unprecedented crisis. Due to ...

The driest years resulted in dangerously low water levels in Gatun Lake that ... implemented. The Panama Canal Authority shortened the chamber size in some of its locks to use less water for ...

It sits about 10 miles west of the edge of Lake Gatún, the enormous freshwater reservoir that feeds the mighty Panama Canal ... a vessel through a series of locks. All Things Considered recently ...