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Isn't passage through the Panama Canal expensive?
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Isn't passage through the Panama Canal expensive?
- steamer25 8y agoMy Costa Rican brother-in-law was just telling me that a couple Central American countries are working on new canals because the Panama canal is fairly saturated.
- xxpor 8y agoExpensive in absolute terms, yes. Based on the calculator here: https://www.wilhelmsen.com/tollcalculators/panama-toll-calculator/CalculatePanama?PcUms=13000&LockType=Neopanamax&VesselType=FullContainerShips&ShipStatus=Laden&Loa=366&Beam=49&Teu=13000 https://www.wilhelmsen.com/tollcalculators/panama-toll-calcu... It costs $1,196,397.54 for the largest possible ship to go though. That's for 13,000 TEUs though (so 6500 standard containers) That's $184 per container. Now think about how much a container holds, and per item for sale it becomes pretty cheap.