A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... get raised and lowered? The canal has a water lock system that acts like a massive ...

The Panama Canal Authority shortened the chamber size in some of its locks to use less water for smaller vessels and minimized direction changes. In January 2025, the authority approved plans to ...

have naturally directed the attention of the government once more to the question of the proper width to be given to the locks of the Panama Canal. It is the locks that determine the capacity of ...

The cause? Drought. The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway around 82 kilometres long with locks that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean for shipping, saving it the much longer ...