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Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has again selected Sepura SRH3500 sGPS(tm) hand-held TETRA radios for one of the world's busiest commercial waterways. read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Last night at approximately 12:15 am (shortly after midnight in the early morning hours of 24 July 2007) two ve read more »
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(Xinhua) Two cargo vessels collided in the Panama Canal, causing no casualties or economic losses, Panama Canal's administration confirmed Wednesday read more »
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By Jorge Fernández for La Prensa - The Jamacian flagged bulk cargo vessel Miltiades, which collided with the ship White Mist on 24 July as it was passing through the Panama Canal near Gamboa, is being repaired in the Braswell Shipyards. The repairs read more »
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By Julian Richardson for The Jamaica Observer - Just under two years after Jamaica and Maersk signed a five-year contract to use the Kingston Container Terminal as a regional trans-shipment hub, the Danish shipping line says it will drop direct cal read more »
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PANAMA CITY, Panama, August 15, 2007 – For the third time in the last 14 months, the Panama Canal tied its record for the total number of daily transits that have an overall length greater than 900 feet. Demonstrating its capability to manage the g read more »
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Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane. read more »
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Last week, at a ceremony at Gatun Locks, the Canal marked the completion of its project to replace all of the towing tracks on which the locomotives travel. read more »
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International Herald Tribune" - The Associated Press - PANAMA CITY, Panama: The Panama Canal moved a record 300 million tons of cargo in fiscal year 2007, officials said Tuesday. The record, set Sept. 20, surpassed the previous record of 293.3 mill read more »
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IHT.com PANAMA CITY: The Panama Canal moved a record 312.6 million tons of cargo in fiscal year 2007, a 5 percent increase over the year previous, officials said Tuesday. The cargo was carried by 14,721 ships, a 3.7 percent increase over the number read more »
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ATHENS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A cargo ship sank after colliding with another vessel near the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki on Wednesday and a crew member was missing, the merchant marine ministry said. "The Panama-flagged motorship Dubai Guardia read more »
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This aerial view of the world famous Barro Colorado Island. From the web site of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - "Barro Colorado Island (BCI), a 1,500-hectare island, is STRI's primary site for the study of lowland moist tropical fo read more »
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PANAMA CITY, November 15, 2007 – The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) opened the 2008 fiscal year (October 1 – September 30) setting a monthly transit record in October for ships spanning 900 feet or more in length. A total of 164 ships of these dimens read more »
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PANAMA CITY, Panama, January 25, 2008 – Every day at the Panama Canal, critical services are performed by tugboats, linehandlers and locomotives, securing and guiding vessels into the locks. These and other marine services are somewhat behind- read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Some people who were there informed me of this incident. They write: "MARCH 16, 2008INCIDENT AT ACP DIABLO DOCK, TUG CACIQUE AND YACHT MOLOKAI - The yacht MOLOKAI had been designated the official timing and finish line vessel for the 2008 Ocean to Ocean Panama Canal read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - The Panama Canal continues to be backed up worse than Grandma on a field trip without her Metamucil. And of course it only makes headline news when it effects a ship load of paying cruise line passengers - see the story below about the severely pissed-off passengers read more »
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - How many ships can pass through the Panama Canal every day? What exactly is the daily capacity of the Panama Canal? How is that capacity measured? The answer is - "it depends." The advertised capacity of the canal is 38 ships per day. Sometimes they can get as many a read more »
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La Prensa - The Queen Elizabeth II, a ship with 40 years of history, passed through the Panama Canal yesterday for the last time. The cruise ship which measures 963 feet in length and 105 feet wide and a capacity for more than 2,000 passengers, will be turned into a floating hotel in Dubai read more »
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