Expanded Panama Canal celebrates five years of operations
Photo: ACP The Panama Canal celebrated, last Saturday, five years of operations of the neo-panamax locks, inaugurated with great fanfare 26 June 2016. The third set of locks gave the waterway a competitive edge by opening it to the transit of larger vessels, at a time when, especially, containerships had grown significantly in size. "In these five years, we went from the learning stage to reach the consolidation phase of an efficient and safe service to our customers," said Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez. "None of this would have been possible without the vote of...
Source: seatrade-maritime.com