Drought has forced Panama’s authorities to reduce shipping traffic in the canal that links the Atlantic and Pacific as a water supply crisis threatens the future of this crucial waterway. | AFP
Some six percent of global maritime shipping passes through the canal, mostly from the United States, China and Japan.
According to the ACP, between March 21 and April 21, the Alhajuela level fell by seven meters — more than 10 percent. In the 2022 fiscal year more than 14,000 ships carrying 518 million tons of cargo passed through the canal, contributing $2.5 billion to the Panamanian treasury.Alarm bells were already set off in 2019 when the fresh water supplies dropped to just three billion cubic meters, some way short of the 5.25 billion needed to operate the canal.
“Without a new reservoir that brings new volumes of water, this situation will remove the Canal’s capacity to grow,” former administrator Jorge Quijano told AFP. The shortages have caused water supply problems in several parts of the country, provoking numerous protests.
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