Twelve years of digging, an estimated 27,500 deaths and roughly $375 million ended quietly on the morning of August 15, 1914, when a single steamship slipped into a lock chamber on Panama’s Caribbean coast and began climbing a staircase of water. The SS Ancon, a cargo and passenger vessel of the Panama Railroad Company, left Cristóbal at Colón and reached the Pacific port of Balboa about nine hours later. It was the first official transit of the…
The interoceanic route celebrates its anniversary with adjustments in the situation due to the El Niño phenomenon and an increase of 6.12% in its crossings, while promoting strategic projects towards 2035.