In this episode we visit the world famous Panama Canal. The Miraflores locks visitors centre is the main place to see the canal and watch ships passing through the famous locks.

Water began flooding into an expanded section of the Panama Canal as engineers begin testing new locks. It's a key step in a project that will affect trade across the world. (AP Photo/Tito Herrera) ...

FILE - President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to ...

These new locks not only doubled the capacity of the canal but also raised the maximum ship size from 110 ft. wide, 1,050 ft. long, and 41.2 ft. deep to 180 ft. wide, 1,400 ft. long, and 60 ft. deep.

The Panama Canal locks are due to be bigger than ever in 2014 as the inter-ocean route observes its 100th anniversary. They will be able to handle ships carrying as many as 12,600 containers each ...

FILE - A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama on Tuesday celebrated the 25th ...

That is a “flagrant violation” of the constitution, which prohibits foreign bases, and the 1977 handover treaties that establish the “neutrality” of the canal and permit only Panama to ...

People work on reconditioning and preventive maintenance in a dry chamber at the Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City, Panama, in May. File Photo by Bienvenido Velasco/EPA-EFE ...