A cargo ship sails through the Panama Canal, in Panama City, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) U.S. Secretary ...

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 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national ... Stevens also scrapped the plan for a sea-level canal and asked the ICC to approve a lock system with a dam and artificial lake.

It’s “basically a water elevator,” said Ilya Espino de Marotta, deputy administrator of the Panama Canal Authority. A system of interconnecting locks raises ships around 26 meters (85 feet ...