Call it a new era for Panama Canal cruises. ... Americas near the canal's Pacific entrance, which has a clearance of just 201 feet at high tide. The world's biggest cruise ship, ...

A new era for Panama Canal cruises kicked off over the weekend as a passenger vessel transited the waterway's new, bigger locks for the first time. Disney Cruise Line's 83,308-ton Disney Wonder ...

Windstar Cruises' 7-night Costa Rica & Panama Canal cruise. To explore the Panama Canal region in a relaxed manner aboard an intimate motorized sailing yacht or small ship, check out Windstar ...

People look at a cruise ship crossing the Panama Canal in the Agua Clara locks in Colon 80 km northwest from Panama City. RODRIGO ARANGUA—AFP/Getty Images. More Must-Reads from TIME.

The Panama Canal is a marvel of engineering that allows cruise and cargo ships to efficiently cross Central America instead of skirting the southernmost tip of South America at Cape Horn. For years, ...

Ships on shorter cruises go into the canal, turn around and return to their ports of origin. As our cruise ship nudged through the locks, we had a bird’s-eye view of other in-transit vessels in ...

The new, wider locks on the Panama Canal will open June 26 with the first official transit of a cargo ship, but don’t expect much traffic through them from cruise ships.

There will be fewer post-Panamax cruise ships after the Panama Canal Authority completes its ambitious expansion of the canal in 2014. The Panama Canal Authority recently passed the halfway point ...

Modern mega-cruise ships such Cunard’s Queen Mary II, Celebrity Edge Class ships, Norwegian Bliss and Prima class, or the Sun Princess will travel through the new, wider Panama Canal, Gary says.

A Holland America cruise ship where four passengers died and at least two travelers tested positive for the coronavirus was finally granted passage through the Panama Canal to sail to Florida ...