the sea surrounding the stormy Cape Horn has been notorious as a ship graveyard, claiming the lives of thousands of sailors and countless vessels. However, the advent of the Panama Canal brought ...

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 ...

ships navigated around Cape Horn, the treacherous southern extremity of South America. A New York to San Francisco journey measured some 13,000 miles and took months. A canal across Panama would ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino and the canal's operator denied the State Department’s claim that the country would allow U ...

PANAMA CITY (AP ... to sail around Cape Horn at South America's southern tip. The U.S. International Trade Administration says the canal saves American business interests “considerable ...

The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end. It allows ships to avoid the longer and costlier trip around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. “It is an enormous responsibility ...