The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cargo ships wait to transit the Panama Canal in Panama City, on ...

Ahead of U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio's visit to the country, US envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone put the onus on Panama to ...

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” said President Donald Trump in his second inaugural address, on Jan.

Trump has complained that China exerts control over the canal and charges U.S. ships six-figure premiums to cross Panama's isthmus. The canal was built over several decades by the U.S. and ...

And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal,” the president said in a previous statement. Hutchison Ports PPC, a Hong Kong-based company, controls two separate canal ports, but Panama ...

What’s With Trump and the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal has become a major – and unexpected – focal point of President Donald Trump’s second administration. He has repeatedly stated his ...

the Panama Canal Authority, operates the lock system and the pilot system, which moves — you know, it sort of leads these large container ships through the canal. It’s run by roughly 8,800 ...

Vessels able to fit through the Panama Canal were known to shipbuilders as ... was deployed to design a lock system – by which gravity fills or drains a water chamber to increase or lower ...

“Even as it takes advantage of the global maritime system, Panama has emerged as ... disadvantages U.S. companies, that the [Panama] Canal Authority has begun charging millions of dollars ...

The financial hub has been a "staunch supporter of the multilateral trading system and opposes any ... did not respond to ...