Opportunities and risks for the Panama Canal

Amid rising water levels in Gatun Lake, the Panama Canal Authority plans to boost daily transit slots by three.

Maersk Line is splitting its weekly Oceania/Americas service (OC1) into two loops and will for the foreseeable future use rail to route containers over Panama rather than the canal.

The AP Moller-Maersk Group, which owns Maersk Line and CMA CGM, respectively the second and third largest liner shipping companies in the world, are to work together on a number of decarbonisation programmes

Shell will supply LNG for ZIM’s new vessels in the Asia to USEC trade.

Opt-E-Arrive digital solution will enable CMA CGM vessels to arrive just-in-time at berth at Singapore, skipping the anchorage stop.

A €1.22M project that began in January 2016 as part of the EU’s ‘CORE LNGas hive project’, coordinated by Enagás, has finally been realised. Implementation was announced by APM Terminals Barcelona in February 2019 and, following delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, it has now been completed.