India and France have agreed to explore opportunities for coordinated surveillance whilst deployed to counter threats to the maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The two countries ...

Approximately 80 percent of the world's seaborne oil trade transits through the strategic choke points of the Indian Ocean, making it a vital link between the East and the West. "Countries depend ...

"Geologists believe that, if spreading continues, the three plates that meet at the edge of the present-day African continent will separate completely, allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area ...

PANAMA CITY — A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians hoisting ...

The waterway cuts the amount of time it takes goods to flow from Shenzhen in China to the US east coast, or between San ... Map of the Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific ...

Sources said while the authorities of Upper Kolab irrigation project had established a lone canal outlet between Goudaguda and Phampuni village 30 years back, farmers subsequently added four more ...

So I saw the canal during a period of transition between the two nations. It was an amicable arrangement, very professionally run. I was operations officer on a new Ticonderoga-class guided ...

The canal finds itself caught in a struggle between two major world powers. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Lauren Bain.

These took effect in 1999. Between 2023 and 2024, a severe drought aggravated by climate change lowered the level of lakes feeding the canal, forcing its administrator to restrict transits and ...

The Panama Canal serves as a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. And although the U.S. led the construction of the major waterway that around 40% of the world's cargo ship ...