The Panama Canal Authority has actually introduced that it will certainly begin enabling the exchanging as well as replacement of reserving ports in between vessels coming from the exact same delivery partnership.

Under the brand-new guidelines, which will certainly enter into impact on December 1, 2017, containerships within the exact same partnership are allowed to exchange their scheduled transportation ports approximately 5 times per reservation. Additionally, no termination charge will certainly be examined if the ACP is alerted of the replacement a minimum of 7 days ahead of the reserved vessel’s needed arrival time.

According to the ACP, swaps as well as replacements will certainly be permitted as long as both vessels are of the exact same kind as well as section (containership), both come from the exact same category (i.e. neopanamax, very or normal), both vessels are transiting the exact same instructions, as well as both drivers are participants of the exact same delivery partnership. For swaps, vessels should have comparable transportation constraints, as well as for replacements, the brand-new vessel needs to have comparable or lower transportation constraints. The reserving day of the vessels associated with the swap or replacement additionally should be within the efficient day of the solutions as well as of the partnership.

Last month, the Panama Canal Authority noted the 2,000 th transportation of the Panama Canal Expansion considering that the opening of the neopanamax in June 2016. The container section stands for majority (54%) of the transportations with the increased Canal.