Call it a new era for Panama Canal cruises. ... Disney's canal sailings in 2017 are scheduled to take place on the Disney Wonder, which can fit in both the old and new locks. ...

When the new locks eventually open for business, sometime in the first quarter of 2016, the grand new Panama Canal will have double the cargo capacity of the old.

Weekend-long festivities as Panama welcomes a new dawn for Panama and global ... The $5.4 billion effort to expand the 102-year-old canal took nearly 10 years and the sweat from 40,000 workers ...

See the New and Monumental Panama Canal From Above View of the Panama Canal Expansion project on the Pacific side, April 23, 2015. George Steinmetz for TIME The final lock gate waits to be ...

Panama Canal expands as trade falls flat. ... It’s a game of inches for the ships that squeeze through both the old and new canal. The new locks are more than 50 feet wider than the old.

The Panama Canal, a century-old shortcut connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans for global trade, carries a third of the trade from Asia to the Americas. Tomorrow, the 50-mile canal will open ...

Panama’s $5 billion investment to expand its century-old canal is paying off as shipping lines send more U.S.-bound cargoes through the passage instead of the Suez Canal.

Triumph of 100-year-old Panama Canal came with dangerous costs Aug 15, 2014 7:41 PM EDT. By ... shortening the trip from New York to San Francisco by nearly 8,000 miles. ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama – It's a new day in Central America. The $5.5 billion expansion of the hydraulic eighth wonder of the world, the Panama Canal, is expected ...