BIMCO said routes around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn have been perceived as more reliable and flexible.

The canal spares ships having to sail around Cape Horn at South America’s southern tip, saving it a roughly 7,000-mile journey. Panama President José Raúl Mulino issued a statement rejecting ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber ... braving the treacherous waters off Cape Horn. But the actual excavating of “the Big Ditch,” as it became ...

MEXICO CITY — President Trump said Monday that the United States would reassert control over the Panama ... long canal avoids the need for ships to make the much longer voyage around Cape ...

The Panama Canal is a 51-mile man-made waterway with locks and reservoirs connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving ships from a 7,000-mile detour around Cape Horn at South America’s ...

which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America, shorten their voyage by about 15,000km by using the canal. Since 1999, the government of Panama has had full authority and ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal ... a trans-oceanic canal that would shorten the sea voyage by thousands of miles. Ships would no longer need to circumnavigate South America, braving ...

Trump, in his inaugural address, accused Panama of ... to sail around Cape Horn at South America’s southern tip. The U.S. International Trade Administration says the canal saves American ...