The annual Panama Maritime Review 2024-2025 provides useful insights into Panama’s Maritime, Logistics & Ports Sectors. It was published again by Seatrade Maritime at the end of last year.
Below some of the focus topics you can expect in this issue:
🛳️ Panama Canal Transit Information. FY24 deep-draft transits were down 21% due to drought water saving measures. Projection for 2025: 12,582 transits (+27%) and an increase in tonnage to 520m PC/UMS tonnes (+23%)
📦 Container volume & Container Port developments. Container volumes rebounded strongly beginning of 2024.
👷♂️ Future Panama Canal projects such as the Rio Indio reservoir project, building a pipeline, expanding the land bridge and new port terminals
♟️ Panama’s New Integrated Maritime & Logistics strategy
💻 The Panama Ship Registry administered by AMP e..g updates to the electronic registry and a new pre-check process
⛽️ Developments in bunkering sales & alternative fuel supplies
🌱 Maritime Decarbonization through Alternative Fuels, Energy-Efficiency, Electrification and Hybridisation, Collaboration and Regulation; R&D initiatives
🏗️ Additional Port Investments in new cranes, automation & digitization, port security