The Panama Canal has revised some rules within the Transit Reservation (Booking) System.
The rule published in Advisory to Shipping A-16-2025 related to a vessel with an awarded booking slot that declare a transit condition to avoid being assigned an HML of “C” will forfeit its booking slot, will only apply to vessels with a booking slot obtained during the second booking period.
Additionally, a vessel that requires to be approved a ready time later than the required arrival time after being awarded a booking slot through auction or a Transit in Advance (TIA) slot, and the 48 hours deadline to submit the request has been reached by the time the auction or TIA slot was allocated, the vessel will be allowed to submit the request via email to [emailprotected] no later than one hour from the slot allocation.
(For information about operations in Panama, contact GAC Panama at [emailprotected])
