Fíorscéal

TG4

10:30 PM to 11:32 PM

Thursday 14 November

Share

Add to
Calendar

+

Between the Atlantic and the Pacific, at the gateway to America, Panama's famous canal is an essential gateway for world trade traversing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. However, for the first time in its history, it is completely saturated. Monstrous traffic jams are forcing container ships to wait weeks before crossing from one ocean to the other. The problem is a severe drought that has lowered the level of the canal. The country is also one of the world's most dangerous migration routes. In 2023, half a million men, women and children risked their lives on this route to North America