A new era for Panama Canal cruises kicked off over the weekend as a passenger vessel transited the waterway's new, bigger locks for the first time. Disney Cruise Line's 83,308-ton Disney Wonder ...

Still, many ships operating Panama Canal cruises will continue to use the original locks -- at least for now. Princess said three of its vessels -- Coral Princess, Island Princess and Pacific ...

With a beam of 116 feet, the eight-year-old Splendor is too wide to fit through the canal's old locks. The vessel, notably, had to sail around the bottom of South America in 2009 when it re ...

PANAMA CITY – A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which are set for a test run this week and a formal launch June 26. Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was ...

GATUN, Panama — The Panama Canal’s expansion is finally beginning to look like a channel that will float some of the biggest ships in the world by mid-2015.

The canal uses rainwater to move ships through the locks, which work like elevators to raise vessels by up to 85 feet (26 meters) above sea level as they transit across the isthmus’s continental ...

The $5.25-billion expansion of the Panama Canal entered its latest phase in June, as the recently completed Atlantic and Pacific locks of the new third lane were flooded for the first time.

Thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal every year, but few imagine what happens when one of its locks needs to be repaired. The Pedro Miguel locks, one of the original structures built by the ...

PANAMA CITY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Vessel traffic at the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks was temporarily suspended due to a fire, the canal's administration said in a statement on Thursday.

A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which were formally inaugurated Sunday: The canal: Opened on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was constructed by the United States between ...