Tag: transits

The Panama Canal is set to provide additional transit opportunities, by lifting self-imposed daylight and encounter restrictions  for LNG vessels, starting from 1 October 2018, the deputy administrator Manuel Benitez announced on the sidelines of a conference in Washington, on 28 June.

Greece closed the Corinth canal on Monday, temporarily blocking the transit route for ships, due to a rockfall that followed heavy rain. The 6.4-km canal serves about 11,000 vessels a year, mainly commercial ships and pleasure yachts, offering a short transit from southern Italy to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

The Panama Canal has welcomed the 2,000th Neopanamax vessel transit through its expanded locks, just 15 months after their inauguration, the Panama Canal Authority informed. The 9,504 TEU boxship 'COSCO Yantian', measures 351 meters in length and 43 meters in width.

On August 22, the Panama Canal welcomed the largest capacity vessel to ever transit the expanded locks, the CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt. The Neopanamax containership, which began its voyage from Asia, will be making stops along the U.S. East Coast.

On 29 March, a Neopanamax vessel passed through the new Panama Canal locks, heading from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, marking the 1,000th transit; a significant milestone for the expanded canal, which is experiencing a steady flow of traffic.

The Panama Canal Authority will require transiting crude oil tankers, product carriers and chemical tankers carrying cargoes with flashpoints of less than 18oC, to cool their main decks with water by means of the on-deck water sprinkler system or any other means available in order to prevent automatic activation of their pressure relief valves during transit.

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