Panama

1986: Liberia fights to remain a leading flag of convenience as competition increases.

Pandemic yet to heavily impact Caribbean container transshipment but fallout looms.

Advent Intermodal is seeking to increase transparency along the Panama “land bridge” between the coasts.

Ben Thrower explores the financial and political influence that China is wielding in Panama and around the Panama Canal.

Ben Thrower recently visited the Panama Canal. He writes about the canal’s expansion and what that means to global trade and the maritime industry.

Container ports at risk of earthquake aftershocks

Wildfires, severe storms, and an earthquake are today’s weather headlines

The final part of the FreightWaves series on the Panama Canal focuses on dry bulk transits. The two trends: US agribulk cargo to Asia is down, Colombian coal to the west coast of South America and Asia is up.

The expanded Neopanamax locks of the Panama Canal, which debuted in June 2016, have been a boon for many shipping sectors, but they were specifically designed with container shipping in mind. Lock capacity is measured in twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU).

In the second-part of its series on the Panama Canal, FreightWaves interviews a canal authority executive on trends for container-ship transits and expectations for ship size growth in the years ahead.