How many ships pass through the Panama Canal in a year?

In 2007, 18,193 vessels passed through the canal

It's really cool! Basically, most of it is too narrow and shallow for a ship to go through, so it's got chambers all along it that end up making a sort of staircase. As the ship goes along, water...

more than two thousand

It traveled from north to south or from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

The first ship to pass through the Panama Canal was named the steamship SS Ancon.