Panama Canal transits
31 ships/day
+3.33% day
The daily count of ships crossing between the Atlantic and Pacific through Panama's locks, a canal that runs on fresh water. When the lake feeding the locks falls, transits are rationed and cargo takes the long way round.
Aug 30 · 31.00 ships/day · −3.1% vs the window’s open
the numbers54
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 8 | 32.00 ships/day | |
| Jul 9 | 32.00 ships/day | 0.0% |
| Jul 10 | 31.00 ships/day | −3.1% |
| Jul 11 | 29.00 ships/day | −6.5% |
| Jul 12 | 34.00 ships/day | +17.2% |
| Jul 13high | 83.00 ships/day | +144.1% |
| Jul 14 | 29.00 ships/day | −65.1% |
| Jul 15 | 28.00 ships/day | −3.4% |
| Jul 16 | 29.00 ships/day | +3.6% |
| Jul 17 | 32.00 ships/day | +10.3% |
| Jul 18 | 31.00 ships/day | −3.1% |
| Jul 19 | 34.00 ships/day | +9.7% |
| Jul 20 | 28.00 ships/day | −17.6% |
| Jul 21 | 30.00 ships/day | +7.1% |
| Jul 22low | 23.00 ships/day | −23.3% |
| Jul 23 | 30.00 ships/day | +30.4% |
| Jul 24 | 31.00 ships/day | +3.3% |
| Jul 25 | 30.00 ships/day | −3.2% |
| Jul 26 | 24.00 ships/day | −20.0% |
| Jul 27 | 31.00 ships/day | +29.2% |
| Jul 28 | 31.00 ships/day | 0.0% |
| Jul 29 | 30.00 ships/day | −3.2% |
| Jul 30 | 33.00 ships/day | +10.0% |
| Jul 31 | 29.00 ships/day | −12.1% |
| Aug 1 | 33.00 ships/day | +13.8% |
| Aug 2 | 27.00 ships/day | −18.2% |
| Aug 3 | 29.00 ships/day | +7.4% |
| Aug 4 | 31.00 ships/day | +6.9% |
| Aug 5 | 31.00 ships/day | 0.0% |
| Aug 6 | 29.00 ships/day | −6.5% |
| Aug 7 | 33.00 ships/day | +13.8% |
| Aug 8 | 28.00 ships/day | −15.2% |
| Aug 9 | 29.00 ships/day | +3.6% |
| Aug 10 | 26.00 ships/day | −10.3% |
| Aug 11 | 30.00 ships/day | +15.4% |
| Aug 12 | 29.00 ships/day | −3.3% |
| Aug 13 | 28.00 ships/day | −3.4% |
| Aug 14 | 31.00 ships/day | +10.7% |
| Aug 15 | 31.00 ships/day | 0.0% |
| Aug 16 | 33.00 ships/day | +6.5% |
| Aug 17 | 23.00 ships/day | −30.3% |
| Aug 18 | 27.00 ships/day | +17.4% |
| Aug 19 | 31.00 ships/day | +14.8% |
| Aug 20 | 27.00 ships/day | −12.9% |
| Aug 21 | 26.00 ships/day | −3.7% |
| Aug 22 | 25.00 ships/day | −3.8% |
| Aug 23 | 28.00 ships/day | +12.0% |
| Aug 24 | 30.00 ships/day | +7.1% |
| Aug 25 | 25.00 ships/day | −16.7% |
| Aug 26 | 28.00 ships/day | +12.0% |
| Aug 27 | 31.00 ships/day | +10.7% |
| Aug 28 | 29.00 ships/day | −6.5% |
| Aug 29 | 30.00 ships/day | +3.4% |
| Aug 30latest | 31.00 ships/day | +3.3% |
Lately
Nothing in the fortnight's reporting accounts for the count directly. What it carries is the UN's warning that El Niño is nearing record strength, with odds near 100% that it persists to February — the Pacific pattern behind the droughts that drain the watershed the locks draw on.