Today Friday 26th January we transit the Panama Canal. We have just passed into Gatun Lake above the three lock Gatun staircase on the Atlantic Side. We are now 26m above the Caribbean We started into the access channel at around 7:00am this morning it is now 10:00 we are waiting permission to proceed to the Culebra Cut on the Pacific side of Gatun lake.
The lake was created by damning the Chargres River and flooding its valley. The canal has operated since 1914, the maximum size container ship able to use the original locks is a PanaMax Vessel, capable of carrying 4,500 20 foot containers.
In 2016 the new wider, deeper channels and locks were opened for commercial use enabling Post PanaMax Container Vessels that can now carry 12,000, 20 foot containers.
These photos are just of our transit through the Gatun locks and into Gatun Lake at the Atlantic side of Panama.
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