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The Panama Canal Authority has delayed a scheduled reduction in the maximum draft for Neopanamax Locks for the second time in weeks, citing water levels and a strengthening El Niño.
The Panama Canal Authority is tightening draft restrictions as a renewed El Nino-linked drought squeezes water levels, after a liquefied petroleum gas tanker paid a record $5.3 million in a priority-transit auction to skip the queue.
The Panama Canal Authority will cut daily transits from 36 to 34 on September 3, and to 32 by September 15, citing insufficient watershed rainfall.
The Panama Canal Authority will trim daily vessel transits from 36 to 34, then to 32, starting in September as an El Niño-driven drought threatens water levels.
