Panama · SHIPPING
Key Facts
—The cap Advisory A-29-2026, issued 20 August, limits daily transits to 34 vessels for booking dates from 4 September, falling to 32 from 15 September.
—Where it starts from The canal averaged 34.03 transits a day in July on its own figures, and about 35 through June. The first step largely formalises where it already is; the bite comes on 15 September.
—The trade-off nobody mentions The same advisory postponed the draft restrictions — the 48.0-foot cut moves from 26 August to 2 September, and the 47.5-foot cut from 3 September to 1 October.
