Panama Canal: Miraflores Locks maintenance & Booking System changes

The Panama Canal Authority issued two advisories (A-39-2024 and A-40-2024) regarding scheduled maintenance at the Miraflores Locks and modifications to the Transit Reservation (Booking) System:

Maintenance Period (Nov 23-24, 2024):

• The West Lane of the Miraflores Locks will be out of service for concrete maintenance from Nov 23 (00:01) to Nov 24 (23:59).
• This results in reduced booking slots:
  • Booking Period 2: 5 slots for supers (none for regular vessels).
  • Booking Period 3: No slots for any vessels.
• The total available slots: 13 for supers, 3 for regular vessels.
• Restrictions on daylight transits will limit supers to 7 per direction (with a max of 2 daylight-restricted vessels) and regular vessels to 2 per direction (with 1 daylight-restricted).

Slot Distribution Table Correction (Advisory A-40-2024):

• A correction was issued to the slot distribution for booking periods from Nov 23-24. The revised table now includes:
  • Neopanamax: 10 total slots.
  • Supers: 13 total slots.
  • Regulars: 3 total slots.
  • The "conditioned" slot for supers is included in the distribution.

Post-maintenance (after Nov 24, 2024), the normal slot allocation will be reinstated.

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