A historically strong El Niño is bringing drought to Panama, gumming up traffic in a canal crucial to US trade and raising prices on consumers downstream.

Exportadores já optam por troca de navios para driblar o congestionamento de embarcações e as taxas recordes cobradas para a passagem

The Panama Canal will reduce shipping volumes from next month because of a drought fueled by the El Nino phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic…