{"id":2201,"date":"2019-06-28T02:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2019-06-28T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:31:34","slug":"three-years-expanded-panama-canal-exceeding-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/three-years-expanded-panama-canal-exceeding-expectations\/2201\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Years: Expanded Panama Canal Exceeding Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Three years after the Expanded Panama Canal welcomed its first vessel on June 26, 2016, the waterway continues to exceed expectations for the maritime industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the culmination of the largest enhancement project since the waterway\u2019s opening in 1914, the expanded canal recorded over 6,000 Neopanamax transits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOur team\u2019s increased experience with the Neopanamax Locks and continued investment into its operations have allowed the waterway to provide additional capacity and efficiency for shippers,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>according to the Panama Canal Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis has enabled the team to continue reaching remarkable milestones over the past year across new and existing segments, such as transits by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/276658\/panama-canal-welcomes-its-largest-lng-tanker-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first Q-Flex LNG tanker<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/276907\/panama-canal-hosts-its-biggest-containership-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largest containership<\/a>&nbsp;to-date, both just last month.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Expanded Canal has also reaffirmed the waterway\u2019s role as the Green Route of world maritime trade by offering greater cargo carrying capacity and requiring less cargo movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of shipping lines rerouting their services to take advantage of these economies of scale, the Neopanamax Locks have now led to the reduction of more than 55 million tons of CO2 since their inauguration, the authority explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In combination with the Panamax Locks during the same period, the waterway has reduced more than 75 million tons of CO2 in the same timeframe.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the Expanded Panama Canal welcomed its first vessel on June 26, 2016, the waterway continues to exceed expectations for the maritime industry. From the culmination of the largest enhancement project since the waterway\u2019s opening in 1914, the expanded canal recorded over 6,000 Neopanamax transits. \u201cOur team\u2019s increased experience with the Neopanamax Locks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[367,143,145],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-co2","tag-panama","tag-panamax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}