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Supersized container ships traveling through the newly enhanced Panama Canal have been arriving at the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore since last year and the Maryland Department of Transportation's Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) continues to make plans to handle the increased amounts of containerized cargo.
Recently, the MDOT MPA purchased property at the Point Breeze Business Center, which is located right behind the Seagirt Marine Terminal on Broening Highway ...
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On May 2, the Panama Canal welcomed the largest vessel both in dimension and capacity to transit the Expanded Canal since it was inaugurated in June 2016. The 13,092 TEU Neopanamax containership COSCO Development, which measures 366 meters in length and 48.2 meters in beam, began its voyage in Asia, ...
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A Panama Canal delegation, comprised of Administrator Jorge L. Quijano and a Planning and Commercial Development team, met with customers and maritime organizations in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan, during a customer tour of Asia—a primary driver of traffic through the Canal.
These meetings allowed the Panama Canal to obtain ...
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Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes brand and global leader in supply chain planning and optimization (SCP&O), recently announced that its software has been selected by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to plan, schedule and optimize all vessels transit operations through the Canal to reduce costs, improve safety and increase overall efficiency ...
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In February 2017, the Panama Canal set a new daily tonnage record of 1.18 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS) after welcoming a total of 1,180 vessels through both the Expanded and original locks. The previous record was established the month prior in January 2017 when the Canal recorded a daily ...
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The Panama Canal welcomed the largest capacity vessel to-date on December 20 to transit the Expanded Locks—Hapag-Lloyd's Valparaiso Express. The 10,589 TEU Neopanamax containership was specifically built to take advantage of the greater capacity offered by the Expanded Panama Canal.
The passage ushers in a new era of mega-ships ...
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At the close of the 2016 fiscal year (FY16), the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) recorded the third-highest annual tonnage in its history, welcoming 330.7 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS).
A total of 13,114 vessels transited the Panama Canal during the fiscal period from Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. Of ...
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The Panama Canal celebrated 102 years of successful operations and service to the global maritime community on August 15, just one day after welcoming its 100th transit through the Expanded waterway.
The two milestones punctuate a year for the Canal which has already been marked by a number of notable achievements.
Less ...
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The Panama Canal marked another milestone on July 25 with the transit of the first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier through its expanded locks.
Shell-chartered Maran Gas Apollonia—measuring 289 meters in length and 45 meters in beam—arrived Monday from the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal on the U.S. Gulf Coast, signaling the ...
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. President & CEO Junichiro Ikeda exclaimed that that the MOL Benefactor, a 10,000-TEU containership, successfully passed through the expanded Panama Canal on July 1, 2016. This is significant in that the MOL Benefactor is the first Neo-Panamax containership to perform a commercial transit through the Canal's new expanded ...
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