{"id":834,"date":"2023-08-25T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/over-100-ships-clogged-outside-panama-canal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:25:38","slug":"over-100-ships-clogged-outside-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/over-100-ships-clogged-outside-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 ships clogged outside Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:900px; margin:0 auto; background-color:rgb(246,246,246); padding:20px; line-height:25px; text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>The Panama Canal Authority (PCA) has opted to limit the daily <\/p>\n<p>transits in response to rising congestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1692929717477921-1.jpg\" alt=\"Over 100 ships clogged outside Panama Canal\" title=\"Over 100 ships clogged outside Panama Canal\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; padding:15px 0px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The prolonged dry season is a natural phenomenon that affects many regions, <\/p>\n<p>including the Panama Canal, the PCA has therefore worked to adapt its operations <\/p>\n<p>to ensure a competitive flow of vessels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The standard offering of reservations comprises 23 booking slots for the <\/p>\n<p>Panamax locks. Under Condition 2, in scenarios involving a substantial reduction <\/p>\n<p>in capacity (such as lane closures for maintenance), the allocation is reduced <\/p>\n<p>to 16 booking slots.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, under Condition 3, as currently being implemented, the booking <\/p>\n<p>slots are limited to 14 in total (comprising 10 slots for super-sized vessels <\/p>\n<p>and 4 slots for regular-sized vessels).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allows us to manage congestion and ensures ships en route or in <\/p>\n<p>queue, which haven\u2019t secured reservations, can still transit in competitive time <\/p>\n<p>frames,\u201d the PCA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be noted that transits through the Neopanamax locks maintain <\/p>\n<p>their regular average of 10 transits per day, so these have not been impacted by <\/p>\n<p>the measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The PCA has underscored the precise congestion statistics at both canal <\/p>\n<p>entrances. This comes as a response to deceptive reports that have recently <\/p>\n<p>asserted a lineup of 200 ships.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Panama Canal believes in transparency and permanent communication\u201d, <\/p>\n<p>reads its latest statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe inform in advance of the measures that may influence our customers\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>operations so that they can make business decisions, ensuring the sustainability <\/p>\n<p>and continuity of world trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As of 22 August, the authority reported 120 vessels waiting for transit. <\/p>\n<p>For this month, the average waiting time for unbooked transits is between 9 and <\/p>\n<p>11 days.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes less than two weeks after the PCA announced a <\/p>\n<p>temporary restriction on the number of new reserved passage slots to alleviate <\/p>\n<p>the bottleneck of ships awaiting transit without reservation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panama Canal Authority (PCA) has opted to limit the daily transits in response to rising congestion.The prolonged dry season is a natural phenomenon that affects many regions, including the Panama Canal, the PCA has therefore worked to adapt its operations to ensure a competitive flow of vess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}