#panamacanal

#FossilFuel burning ships carrying fossil fuels need to burn a lot more fossil fuels because a canal dried up by the burning of fossil fuels is in the way of those fossil fuels getting to where they will be burned. Okay then. "Liquefied natural gas shippers increasingly are opting to travel up to two weeks longer and almost 6,000 nautical miles further to bypass the #PanamaCanal as transporters of other fuel pay nearly $4 million to jump the long queue." #LNG

The “Pinch that stole Christmas”: Brill. "The possibility of a canal bottleneck turning into the “Pinch that stole Christmas” should be a catalyst for buyers, manufacturers and shipping companies to reassess their whole approach to supply and logistics. Centralising manufacturing and piling products into ever-larger ships makes less sense if transport bottlenecks diminish economies of scale." #PanamaCanal

"More than 40% of consumer goods traded between north-east Asia and the US east coast are transported through the #PanamaCanal. In normal times, the Panama Canal has capacity to handle 36 ships a day. But as water has grown scarcer, the canal authority has reduced that number to 22. By February, it will be just 18."

"The #PanamaCanal Authority aims to create a massive dam 840 meters in length and 80.5 meters in height to secure freshwater for its locks. It says the reservoir's 1.25 billion cubic meters of water would allow up to 15 additional vessel transits per day during the dry season, and help provide #DrinkingWater to Panama's growing 4.5 million population."

Panama canal traffic to be cut again as drought from El Niño worsens https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/15/panama-canal-traffic-cut-trade-drought-el-nino #PanamaCanal #Panama #Americas #ElNioSouthernOscillation #Drought #ShippingIndustry #InternationalTrade #GlobalEconomy #Economics #Environment #Business