Marine traffic at Panama Canal While our Live Map allows you to monitor traffic at the Panama Canal in real time, our playback feature allows you to look back at what happened over the last 24 hours. This video, highlighting a day’s worth of activity, shows just how important the Panama Canal is to world shipping. Did you know the expanded Panama Canal recently reached the 10,000 transit milestone when the SK Resolute tanker, transporting LNG from the US to China, passed through? This was the SK

The Panama Canal is one of the most significant construction projects in the modern era. While it's completion represented a landmark achievement that changed the course of world trade, it wasn't without major cost. Thousands of workers died as technology and medical research failed to catch up to the obstacles faced by crews. It wasn't until the Americans took over the failed French project, that things finally came to be. Today we'll explore the history of the Panama Canal, and better understa