The Panama Canal announced Saturday that it will reduce the maximum number of ships traveling through the waterway from 32 to 31 per day in August, as a drought has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks. This compares to a daily average of 36 to 38 ships per day under […]
Ilya Espino, the canal’s deputy administrator, told AFP that unless there were heavy rains in the next three months, they were considering “a period of one year” to restrict access to the waterway. That period would give customers “a year to plan” how to adapt. The 50-mile (80-kilometer) byway is mainly used by customers from […]
Panama’s social security authority said about 20 people were hospitalized with injuries, some of them seriously. Migration officials did not give details about the nationalities of the victims, saying it would first communicate with the passengers’ relatives and the relevant embassies. “The government expresses its condolences to the families of those killed in this accident […]
