Panama Canal | Record broken for ship with largest transport capacity

(Panama) A Liberian-flagged merchant ship with a capacity of 17,640 containers broke the record Friday for the ship with the largest cargo capacity to transit the Panama Canal in its 110 years of operation, the canal authority announced.


The container ship MSC Marie366 meters long and 51 meters wide, crossed the canal from the Mexican port of Manzanillo in the Pacific to a port in the Panamanian Caribbean.

For his passage, he paid a toll of more than 1.3 million dollars.

THE MSC Marie has become the “ship with the greatest cargo capacity ever to transit the interoceanic waterway,” the Panama Canal Authority said in a statement, noting that the previous record was held by theEver Maxwith a capacity of 17,312 containers, which crossed the canal in 2023.

The 80-kilometer-long Panama Canal was opened by the United States on August 15, 1914. Since then, more than 1.2 million ships have passed through it.

The waterway was widened in 2016 to allow the passage of larger and deeper vessels.

By transiting through Panama, ships travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea in about eight hours, without having to go all the way to Cape Horn.


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