Panama Canal to allow 34 transits by the end of July

According to the Panama Canal, this number of transits will increase to 34 as of July 22, following the current and projected level of Gatun Lake for the coming weeks, and due to the arrival of the rainy season in the Panama Canal Watershed. With these progressive increases, by July 22 the Canal will have added:

• two transits to the current schedule: one to the panamax locks (raising the daily transits to 25)
• one to the neopanamax locks (increasing daily transits to 9). Additionally, an increase in draft from 45 to 46 feet was announced, effective June 15.

To remind, as of May 16, the number of daily transits in the Panamax locks had increased from 17 to 24, and starting June 1, the number of daily transits in the Neopanamax locks was to increase from 7 to 8. This adjustment was to raise the current number of vessel transits per day to 32.