The Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: report
The Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: report
Japan's Eneos Group paid almost $4 million for expedited passage through the Panama Canal amid an unprecedented drought, Bloomberg reported.
Ah, yes.
Yet another outcome of climate change that few thought about.
The canal uses fresh water from the lake in its locks, which has been affected by a long term drought...
"This will be the worst El Niño recorded in recent history," company administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales said, per the outlet.
So the number of ships allowed to transit is reducing Normally 36 per day, is expected to hit 18 in a couple of months if the drought continues.
I wonder how long it will take until it is cheaper to expend the extra fuel and time to go round cape horn than sit and wait in the line for the canal?
Cape Horn is also dangerous as fuck. If ships opt to go that route, I'd be willing to bet that a percentage of them don't make it.
"You go around the horn, the way God intended!"
Poor little Bojack. Every scene with him as a child is just awful
They've done it before.
Climate change might open the Northwest Passage before the Cape is a profitable alternative