The Panama Canal uses a series of locks to raise the water level and carry ships across from one ocean to the other. But that requires lots of freshwater. It’s running low in Panama. The World’s Marco Werman talks with Matt Vick, a trade and customs specialist at the Institute of Export and International Trade in the UK, about what’s going on at the canal and what it means for the global economy.
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