{"id":7329,"date":"2023-06-28T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/extreme-measures-under-consideration-at-drought-hit-panama-canal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:12:37","slug":"extreme-measures-under-consideration-at-drought-hit-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/extreme-measures-under-consideration-at-drought-hit-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme measures under consideration at drought-hit Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New draft restrictions from the drought-stricken Panama Canal will mean that from next month the waterway will have slashed its draft by more than 2 m, with authorities warning daily transits may have to be cut by up to 25% in order to save water.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Panama has been suffering one of the worst dry spells in its history this year, with repeated announcements of draft restrictions on the canal, something likely to worsen with the onset of El Ni\u00f1o, a weather pattern that tends to bring dry weather to Central America.<\/p>\n<p>The canal\u2019s administrator, Ricaurte Vasquez, said he had not ruled out taking the \u201cextreme measure\u201d of limiting daily transits on the waterway from today\u2019s 36 vessels to 28 vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/extreme-measures-under-consideration-at-drought-hit-panama-canal\/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=%5BFreightos+Weekly+Update%5D+ILWU-PMA+deal+brings+relief%2C+while+low-water+in+Panama+a+concern&amp;utm_campaign=2023+W25+FBX+Update\">splash247<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New draft restrictions from the drought-stricken Panama Canal will mean that from next month the waterway will have slashed its draft by more than 2 m, with authorities warning daily transits may have to be cut by up to 25% in order to save water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[821],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-panama-canal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions\/7330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}