The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also ...

We tend to associate aircraft carriers with being enormous floating military cities, and not necessarily the most lithe, ...

The Houthis began targeting commercial shipping on November 19, 2023, and claimed their first attack on a U.S. warship on January 9, 2024. In response, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2722 ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

Unlike the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal runs on fresh water. The ensuing constraints also resulted in less cargo being transported.