Expanded Panama Canal could transit up to 550 LNG tankers by 2021

Wednesday, 06 July 2016

Over $5.3 billion have been spent to widen the Panama Canal – a strategic shortcut for sea voyages between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Exporters of US shale gas now aspire to send up to 550 LNG tankers by 2021 through that vital sea-link from the US Gulf Coast to Asia.

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