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The Panama Canal celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Neo-Panamax boat lock operation

The Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean through a narrow isthmus in Panama, connects more than 140 maritime routes and 1,700 ports in 160 countries, contributed US$1.8 billion to the treasury in 2020. On June 26, the Panama Canal celebrated five years of operations of the Neo-Panamax locks system.

edt292 by edt292
04/07/2021
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Kênh đào Panama kỷ niệm 5 năm âu thuyền Neo-Panamax đi vào hoạt động

Image: Nhi Pham

On June 26, 2016, the third set of locks was inaugurated that 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. This new lock allows ships with a maximum length of 366m, width of 49m wide and a draft of 15,2m to pass through the canal, corresponding to a cargo volume of 13.000 TEU or 120.000 tons.

Container ship at Neo-Panamax boat lock

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 confidence that Panamanians gave the Canal, through the referendum, to execute the expansion program, and the professionalism and commitment of the Canal’s human resources,” he added.

Since the Neo-Panamax locks inauguration, 13.700 vessels have transited the Canal, of which 42% were box ships, LPG, 22%, dry bulk carriers, 15%, LNG, 14%. Those 1.640 LNG vessels had never used the Canal route before.  These Neo-Panamax locks transits represent 28% of all Canal transits (including the Panama locks) and 54% of cargo volume and 58% of the total Canal toll revenues.

The Canal increased, this June, the ships’ maximum length to 370.33m. However, in 2019 the Evergreen-369m-long Triton transited, marking the first transit of longer vessels. Since then 250 very long vessels have passed through the Neo-Panamax locks. Such length increase means that a large portion (96,8%) of the world’s container fleet can now transit the waterway, said the ACP.

Although the construction was marred with disputes with the multinational consortium delaying its opening to June 2016, the third lane doubled the Canal capacity and allowed larger and longer vessels, the Neo-Panamaxes, to transit, strengthening the competitiveness of the service offered by the Panama Canal, providing economies of scale and attracting new markets such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships, to the point of becoming the fourth in the number of transits in the Neo-Panamax locks.

Last year, the Panama Canal announced it will be making a major capital investment for a global integrated solution that will assure water supply for canal operations and local consumption for decades ahead.

Panama Canal

 “We have looked at all options (to guarantee water) for the next 50 years. It is a resource that must remain under Canal control and we will get a portfolio of solutions to be able to begin work by 2022 during the dry season,” said Administrator Vasquez during a Seatrade-organised webinar. The project estimated at a cost of $2 billion will be financed by the Canal’s own cash flow and market financing if required, he added. “The water has a value, we generate value and will have to introduce charges.” 

In September 2020, the Canal called a Request for Qualifications for the water project, for which pre-qualified companies would be announced in 2021 and then the selected companies will have several months to present their proposals. 

Minh Duc

Tags: LNGpanamasea

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