Panama Canal increases daily transits

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The Panama Canal will increase daily transits from 32 to 34 by July 22 and raise the draft from 45 to 46 feet starting June 15....

ACP focuses on water saving measures

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The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) continues to implement measures to ensure that a sufficient supply of fresh water is available in the lakes...

Continued Transpacific vessel pressure

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Increased vessels deployment in transpacific trades is stressing US port infrastructure even more; this is also reflected in Panamanian conc...

Bigger ships set to transit Panama Canal

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Almost two years after the opening of the new locks on the expanded Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that larger...

Peel Ports, ACP Panama MoU

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The Panama Canal Authority has entered into a MoU with UK ports operator Peel Ports, as the latter gears up for the formal opening of its Li...

Panamanian container ports decline

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Containers handled at Panama’s main ports fell by more than 13% in the first eight months of 2016 to nearly 4.1M TEU, compared with almost...

Corozal legal doubts

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Panamanian constitutional lawyer Miguel Antonio Bernal has advised the government that there is risk in privatising the future Corozal trans...

New expanded Panama Canal opens

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The new Panama Canal locks were opened over the weekend, with the COSCO Shipping PANAMA becoming the first “Neopanamax” commercial trans...

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