Seatrade Maritime News: Tankers to stop transiting the Panama Canal

In its weekly report broker Poten noted that oil tankers were relatively minor participants in the canal’s transit numbers but this could drop to zero as the Panama Canal cut booking slots to 25 daily from 3 November and will gradually reduce the number of booking slots to just 18 by 1 February 2024, in the worst drought in 73 years.

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