Panama Canal

100 Years Ago
“From Kansas City to Mexico will be the first double track built by the Wabash Railroad on their Western division and for which an appropriation was recently made. The tracks will then be laid from her to …

The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of
commodity shipping costs, advanced from a 25-year low and rose
for the first time since Dec. 12 after falling rates boosted the
number of dry-bulk owners dropping anchor and refusing hire.

The index …

By Sean Mattson

PANAMA CITY |
Sun Feb 5, 2012 7:26pm EST

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Manuel Noriega, Panama’s drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital on Sunday after suffering a possible stroke,

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WISH YOU WERE HERE

Canal only part of cruise’s delights

By Sara Hamsa of Cedar Park

A group of us took a cruise through the Panama Canal in early March. We
stopped at several …

ANTIPATER of Sidon, a Greek poet, would be writing travel guides had he lived now.

Back around 140 BC, he composed a list of the world’s main theamata — literally, things to be seen — from the great Pyramid of …

Paul and Seena Abramson celebrated their 55th anniversary with a visit to Charleston, S.C., on a 19-day Crystal cruise from San Francisco to New York City via the Panama Canal. One of the interesting ports visited was Charleston, where they …

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WISH YOU WERE HERE

Canal only part of cruise’s delights

By Sara Hamsa of Cedar Park

A group of us took a cruise through the Panama Canal in early March. We stopped at several …

BP Plc (BP/) has started shipping crude oil
westward on the trans-Panama pipeline, the company said in an e-
mailed statement.

BP will ship 100,000 barrels a day to Panama’s Pacific
Coast port of Charco Azul, where it will …

See how narrow it is? Most container ships span up to 106′ or 107′and the channel is only 110 feet wide. That doesn’t leave a lot of room to maneuver.

Tourists and marine-lovers can stop by Miraflores Visitors Center…

USA: Deeper Harbor Will Bring More Business, Says TraPac Vice President

Posted on Feb 2nd, 2012 with tags Americas, bring, business, deeper, harbor, more, News, President, says, TraPac, USA, …