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Carriers to implement Panama Canal surcharges

News28 Nov 2023

Container shipping companies are responding to the rising cost of using the Panama Canal by charging their customers additional fees....

News2 Nov 2023

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has had to impose further restrictions on vessel transits as a result of the country’s driest October in ...

News16 Oct 2023

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

News17 Feb 2022

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

News17 May 2019

On Wednesday 15th May, the Panama Canal Authority completed a trial transit of Evergreen’s TRITON, the largest vessel in dimension and con...

News1 May 2018

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

News25 Oct 2016

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...

News1 Oct 2016

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...

News1 Jul 2016

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

News27 Jun 2016

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

News3 May 2016

China COSCO Shipping has won the draw for the first transit through the expanded Panama Canal during the waterway's inauguration on Sunday, ...

News30 Nov 2015

The Panama Canal authority has issued an RFQ for a new 5M TEU terminal at Corozal on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal....

News1 Sep 2015

Next year will see the new and larger locks on the Panama Canal commissioned, and potentially the beginning of a new maritime and freight lo...

News11 Aug 2015

A severe drought in Panama has led to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) cutting the draught of ships transiting the canal...

News1 Jul 2015

June has been an important month for the Panama Canal expansion project, with several milestones reached....