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The table of fees for the Panama Canal reads like a crossword puzzle. The story is not just about the type and size of the cargo ship and its load. Also costs for pilot on board, tugs in the port or locomotives and mooring in the lock chambers have to be combined to calculate a price for the Passage.

Little money comes at the end of this case but not out. “For a transit on a container ship with a maximum of 5000 TEU we must currently pay up to 450,000 dollars,” says Karsten Warncke, responsible manager for networks at Germany’s largest shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. The abbreviation TEU stands for Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit and thinks 20-foot standard containers, converted just under 400,000 euros are due

For comparison. The Suez Canal is only one-third as expensive, the Kiel – channel with a maximum of 20,000 euro almost a bargain. Since 103 years ships sail through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific or vice versa, and save yourself the trip around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. The fees shall the State Panama firmly

Now the new Panama Canal is opened with much larger sluices and deepened waterway, and with a surprise. The transit through the new equipment is not expensive. “Converted to a standard container are the fees affordable even by five to ten percent,” explains Marine expert Warncke an example.

For the expansion to more than twice as large ships pass through the second main channel of the world. For a cargo ship with 10,000 TEU Hapag-Lloyd calculated 800,000 dollars in fees. Shut Projected on each container that is a considerable saving. Because that want shipowners: using ever larger container ships, the costs per transported unit lower. But the old Panama Canal was too narrow for ship giant of the new generation and to flat.

The reason for the pricing policies of Panama suspected Manager Warncke not necessarily a new generosity of Central American governments towards the Marine. Rather, the concern is likely to stand behind that shipping companies remain at a high additional fee for their giant ships but in the earlier ship sizes and continue to drive with 5000 TEU freighters through the channel. Finally, these ships are to have for far too low transport demand for relatively little money or daily rental. In addition, companies can have their large vessels continue the way around Cape Horn. “We expect that the Canal Authority will look the end of 2016, how the fees look like in the coming years,” says Warncke. First of all is probably but everything be done to ensure that the launch succeeds

The stakes are high:. To the country’s future Panama to the development of world trade and to the attractiveness of the trade routes. Today, six percent of global goods traffic is handled via the Panama Canal, last year there were 300 million tons of goods. This figure, so hope economists of the country is set to double when the Marine accepts the new channel and use.

The conditions for growth of global trade are now created: Panama has concluded with comparatively low latency of less than two years, a project of the century, the only one so far in these dimensions. The construction of the new channel began in fall 2007 has temporarily employed 40,000 workers.

You have cleared 150 million cubic meters of earth and rubble. At the locks they have installed twelve million tons of cement and 192,000 tons of steel. The existing lock installations two other much larger lock systems are now added. They have three lock chambers, each chamber is 427 feet long, 55 feet wide and 18 feet deep. The estimated two years ago $ 5.3 billion construction costs have recently increased by 1.6 billion dollars.

Thanks to the extension can Panama’s natural advantage as narrowest point between the Americas and ideal link between the Caribbean sea and the Pacific Ocean play again. Last year around 14,000 ships passed through the canal, which corresponds to 35 to 40 passages every day. The transit time of container ships an average of 24 hours.

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