The Panama Canal is marking the eighth anniversary of its historic expansion program by increasing its draft and daily transits amid an ongoing water crisis. Effective today, the maximum authorized…
https://gcaptain.com/panama-canal-boosts-capacity-on-eighth-anniversary-of-expansion-project/
By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) — The $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal doubled its capacity in 2016, allowing the world’s largest cargo ships to sail more easily to America’s East…
The Panama Canal reported record tonnage in its 2021 fiscal year amid unprecedented supply chain challenges. Containers led in total tonnage, while LNG, LPG, vehicle carriers and dry bulk carriers…
The Panama Canal will reduce the number of available reservation slots and introduce new fees as part of a series of measures to sustain water levels and ensure reliability of the waterway following years of drought. The Panama Canal Authority on Monday announced the changes as part of a short-term...
On January 1, 2020, engineer Ilya Espino de Marotta became the first woman to serve as the deputy administrator of the Panama Canal. Ms. Marotta has more than 30 years of experience in the Panama Canal in positions as executive manager of resource management and project controls before the Expansion Program.
Ilya Espino de Marotta started her career on the Canal in 1985 as the only engineer in the shipyard. She now works with more than 1,000 women in the interoceanic highway and recently served...
https://safety4sea.com/panama-canal-appoints-its-first-woman-deputy-administrator/
With 2019 closing, the Panama Canal celebrated 20 years under Panamanian administration, from December 31, 1999, having evolved to a competitive, innovative business, adapting to digitalization and improving its global trade through relations.
In celebration of 20 years, the Panama Canal Authority outlined some of its achievements accomplished in these two decades, herebelow:
https://safety4sea.com/panama-canal-celebrates-20-years-operations/
There are several variations related to ships sailing on high seas. Panamax vessels, Aframax vessels, and Suezmax vessels are some of the most prevalent types. But what do they mean and what kind of ships do they represent? Well, the answer is relatively easy, and it lies on the area that each ship caters.
https://safety4sea.com/cm-do-you-know-how-to-distinguish-an-aframax-from-a-panamax-vessel/
The Panama Canal informed that on May 12 it welcomed Qatargas’ Al Safliya, the first Q-Flex and the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker to ever transit the waterway. The tanker features 315 meters in length and 50 meters in beam, having an overall cargo capacity of 210,000 meters3 of LNG.
The milestone transit also highlighted the Canal’s environmental benefits because of its ability to help vessels reduce the distance and duration of their trips, in comparison to alternate routes....
https://safety4sea.com/watch-first-q-flex-lng-tanker-to-transit-panama-canal/
In June 2016, the Panama Canal Authority, the body that operates the Panama Canal, opened the third set of locks that facilitated the transit of larger ships, the first such expansion since the canal was completed in 1914. In the years since the canal was expanded, the largest change in petroleum flows through the canal has been the increase of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL), especially propane, from the U.S. Gulf Coast to destinations in Asia, says an article published in US Energy Information...
http://mfame.guru/more-propane-and-hydrocarbon-gas-liquids-to-transit-the-expanded-panama-canal/
On March 28 the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) voted to approve the purchase of two new 100-foot gauge container gantry cranes to be used at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal.
Specifically, the voting concluded to the Board approving a $23.4 million contract to Shanghai, China-based Shanghai Zenhua Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., for the construction and delivery of the cranes. There are no domestic manufacturers of container gantry cranes.
Yet, in order for the...
https://safety4sea.com/port-of-new-orleans-invests-in-two-new-gantry-cranes/