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September 12th – Panama Canal waiting time for non booked vessels (Days)
Neopanamax Northbound tranists average waiting time continues to increase, showing a total of 14 days estimated for Non-booked vessels. As for Southbound’s, an improvement from -5 days, showing today a total of 9 days of waiting (average).
Panamax Locks: – 1 day for Non booked Northbound Supers’ and +1 day for Southbounds, whilst for Regulars Southbounds’, improvement of -2 days on the average waiting time for Non-Booked vessels.
How can we help with your Panama Canal Transit?
- Booking system – secure booking slots via 1st period, 2nd period, and 3rd period booking competition.
- Booking auction – submitting bids to secure booking auction slots.
- Pre-Arrival – coordinating with the vessel Master for timely submission of all pre-arrival information within 96 hours pre-arrival as required by the Panama Canal Authority.
- Transit Guarantees – payment to the Panama Canal Authority.
- Maiden Transit – coordination with vessel owner and the Panama Canal Authority to insure vessels are in compliance for a 1st time passing of the Panama Canal.
- Owners matters – coordination of bunkering, collection of bunker samples, CTM, crew changes, provisions and supplies, spare parts transfer, surveys, repairs and maintenance.