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The U.S. ceded control of the waterway to Panama in 1977, with the handover being completed in 1999. The Suez Canal, built in the 1800s, connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

In the first five months of 2025, crossings via the canal jumped 10 percent annually as geopolitical tensions continue to surround the trade artery.

and the two reached an agreement allowing the “expedited transit of warships and auxiliary vessels of the Republic of Panama and the United States.” The Suez Canal, located in Egypt and ...

An effort to establish a canal through Panama led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built Egypt’s Suez Canal, began in 1880 but progressed little over nine years before going bankrupt. Malaria ...

President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. “American Ships, both Military and Commercial ...

Built by French engineers in the 19th century, the Suez Canal has been controlled by the Egyptian government. The Panama Canal and surrounding zone remained under US control until they were handed ...

Reports from the people of Panama said it was not ... emboldened after completing the Suez Canal, who started the big dig in the late 19th century. They hired the count who led the Suez project ...

Lesseps, designer of the Suez Canal in Egypt. After the French effort failed, the U.S. government signed a treaty with newly independent Panama in 1903 to take over the project. The U.S. acquired ...

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American military and commercial ships should be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal free ...