The canal’s two biggest ports are operated by a Hong Kong company with global reach. The Trump administration sees a Chinese threat to U.S. security. By Alexandra Stevenson and Keith Bradsher ...

Photo: Patrick Pleul/Zuma Press In his inauguration speech, President Trump accused Panama of violating the terms under which the U.S. handed over the Panama Canal. “We’re taking it back ...

institutional statement from the entity that governs United States foreign policy under the president of the United States based on a falsity. And that's intolerable." The Panama Canal serves as a ...

Panama has denied the U.S. State Department's claim that the country will eliminate fees for U.S. government vessels transiting the Panama Canal, just one day after the State Department initially ...

President Trump appeared to double down on his threats to seize the Panama Canal, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Panama with an ultimatum from the White House. Photo: Ben Curtis ...

The Panama Canal charges anywhere between $300,000 to $1 million, varying based on ship size. After Rubio visited Panama this week, his office released a statement saying that he and Mulino ...

Rubio ahead of his visit to Panama said Hong Kong-based companies “having control over the entry and exit points” of the canal is “completely unacceptable.” Hong Kong, which Britain handed ...

Security officers attend a ceremony Dec. 31 in Panama City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United States' ceding control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999. (Aris Martinez/Reuters ...

Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt ... of the United States based on a falsity.

He said Panama will review its arrangement with a Hong Kong-based company to operate ports on either end of the canal. And he reportedly offered US Navy ships an exemption from canal transit fees.

A subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings also has operated two ports on the canal since 1997 – one on the Atlantic side and one on the Pacific side. However ...