Perishables shippers expect an enlarged Panama Canal to offer fresh transhipment options

Panama Canal expansion © Viaggiare1

29/01/2016

After nine years of construction, 130m tonnes of excavated spoil and 4.4m cu metres of concrete, the Panama Canal’s third set of locks will be inaugurated in June ? barring any further delays.

The mammoth US$5bn project expects to see the average capacity of containerships transiting the canal ...

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