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China COSCO Shipping has won the draw for the first transit through the Expanded Panama Canal during the waterway’s inauguration on Sunday, June 26. The shipping line’s container vessel Andronikos will be making the inaugural transit. The vessel, which has a maximum capacity of 9,400 TEUs, is 8.25 meters in beam and 299.98 meters in length…

 

In addition, more than 100 Neopanamax ships have already made reservations for commercial transit through the new locks, which will begin on June 27, 2016, following the historic inauguration.

 

Just a small correction her breadth is 48.25 metres. Also, an fyi, limitations for the new Panama locks are maximum length overall 366 metres, maximum beam 49 metres and maximum draught 12.5 metres.

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