CANAL CUSTOMERS Crude Petroleum
MAIN COMMODITIES (thousand long tonnes) OCT TO JULY FY 2010 4,790,182
Petroleum/related products Grains: Barley Corn
Grain, Misc Rice
Sorghum Soybeans Wheat
Coal and Coke (excl. Petroleum Coke) Container Cargo
Autos, trucks, accessories/parts Canned and refrigerated foods
Manufactures of iron and steel
FY 2011 4,685,841
24,215,068 24,583,907 35,704,818 36,178,246 135,393
98,528
11,894,945 11,961,840 1,400,796 787,470
1,602,419 878,707
5,982,391 3,766,783
14,612,084 16,488,929 891,737
1,381,040
8,996,425 11,285,652 42,122,026 46,026,509 2,515,642 3,406,913
Nitrates, phosphates and potash 5,206,192 Lumber and products
2,557,392 4,262,327
2,900,042 3,157,276 5,439,539 2,584,204 5,724,371
Chemicals/Petroleum chemicals 10,514,513 10,917,593 Total
144,291,498 153,483,180
Others 27,796,840 33,863,368 Total 172,088,338 187,346,548
Maersk Logistics, now a separate unit from the line, caters to other shipping lines as well as Maersk Line, which can focus on its shipping activities. Maersk Logistics Latin America and the technical support unit for vessel operations are now based in Panama. APL, through its predecessor the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, had been present in Panama long before the Panama Canal was inaugurated in 1914. PMSSC
OL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines) is one of the Panama Canal oldest clients. The shipping line that ranks amongst the top five Canal customers has a fleet of 871 vessels totalling 61,354m dwt tonnes and include box ships, car carriers, oil and gas tankers, coal carriers and the world’s largest fleet of LNG and dry bulk vessels. MOL also ranks as the world’s 11th largest container ship operator.
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In the region, MOL’s liner division operates 10 containerised services calling Panama on a weekly basis: ACW, Americas Coasts, CNY, Asia-Panama- USEC, APX, Atlantic-Pacific Express, CX1, Amazon Express, CX3, Venezuela Express, ECX, Ecuador Express, ESX, East Coast-
introduced a pioneering coastal steamship service in 1848 between Panama and California for
passengers and freight. In the modern age, in 1995, APL began the first, dedicated all-water East Coast Service from Asia to the US East Coast, with calls at MIT. Since beginning 2005, APL has initiated operations from the port of Balboa for transhipment and connections to its own network of vessels. The China Shipping Agency (Central America) provides services from the Far East, the US and Panama with vessels fully owned or operated by China Shipping Container
Lines Cy. Ltd, affiliated to the China Shipping (Group) company. The company’s Far East-North America service operates 13 vessels (totalling 120,000teu) out of the company’s 98 container vessels and also cooperates with CMA, ZIM, and P&O lines on a service between US East Coast and Asia.
CMA-CGM started operations in Panama on January 1, 2006 under a joint venture named CMA CGM Panama, Inc. The French
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL)
South Cina Express, GEX, Gulf Express, NCA, North Caribbean and NYX, New York Express. Weekly Eastbound calls at Balboa and Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) and a weekly westbound call at Balboa have been added to the ESX service in 2009 says MOL (Panama) president, Julio De La Lastra.
In July 2011, MOL upgraded its CX1 feeder service between Panama and Manaus and the beginning of independent operation on the
route.The move will provide additional space on this rapidly growing trade with four 1,700teu ships and stabilise the schedule to boost service quality, the liner said in a statement. The expanded feeder
capacity will enable MOL to accommodate additional peak season demand. ‘Assuming total space and operating control, MOL will be able to enhance its already exceptional service to Manaus with even more reliable relay connections and strong on-time delivery,’ said MOL liner ceo, T.K. Konishi, in the statement. The service has four 1,700teu containerships. The Japanese carrier made an average of 27 vessels transits per month in the waterway in 2010. Through a re- organisation in 2003, the liner opened its own commercial office in Panama and relocated the Vessel Operation Centre from Concord, Ca, to centralise the planning of all vessels movements and cargo stowage in North America, Central America, South America, Canada and the Caribbean.
MOL is the largest single user of the Panama Registry having 190 vessels under the Panamanian flag. Every year, the liner recruits a few selected Panamanian cadets to perform their 12-month rotation at sea to become fully licenced engine or deck officers, says de La Lastra.
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company (the world’s third largest container shipping company) was represented in Panama by French Shipping Agency until December 2005. China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) opened offices in Panama in the late1990s and is among the Panama Canal’s top 10 customers. COSCO- Panama that was transferred in 2003 to COSCON (formerly COSCO Americas), has six branch agencies in Central America covering Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Panama and operates as a general agent for COSCO vessels and for other vessels as well. All branches account to COSCO-Panama, which acts as an internal financial centre for the group operations in the region.
Chile’s Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) and Crowley have also opened offices in Panama while Taiwan- based Evergreen operates its liner services and agencies for the region from its subsidiary in Panama located in its own green building.
MOL is one of the Panama Canal’s oldest customers and opened its own commercial office in the country in 2003 as part of a re-organisation. It also relocated its Vessel Operation Centre from Concord, Ca to centralise vessel movement planning and cargo stowage in North, Central and South America; Canada and the Caribbean. •
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