After eight quarters of growth, also thanks to the measures adopted to cope with the prolonged period of drought that causes difficulties in the passage in the waterway Central American of high-draft vessels, in the second quarter of 2023 maritime traffic in the Panama Canal has accused a decrease having transited a total of 3,436 ships, with a decrease of -4,1% on the correspondent period of 2022, of which 3.053 ships of high tonnage (-5.2%). The ships transited carried Globally 69,8 million tons of goods (- 5.6%) and rights transit generated by this maritime traffic have produced revenues pairs to 856,9 million dollars (+15.1%).

In the first six months of this year, maritime traffic in the channel has been of 7.218 ships, with a decrease of the -0,6% on the first half of 2022, naval units that transported 143,6 million tons of cargos (- 0.5%).