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THE INTELLIGENCE PORTAL / SERIESSER-MAR-PANAMA-CANAL · OPEN DATA · 2026
SeriesSER-MAR-PANAMA-CANALSupply Chain & LogisticsCreated 2019-01-01Updated 2026-09-06IMF PortWatch (T4)Standard: AEGEAN-OS v1.3
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Panama Canal

Daily vessel transits through Panama Canal, counted by IMF PortWatch from AIS positions and collected every morning by the firm's Dashboard pipeline.

Reading and history

The latest value with its seven- and thirty-day change, the full history on file, and the last thirty observations as a table.
26transits/day · 2026-09-06
-5 (-16.1%)Change over seven days · from 2026-08-30
-7 (-21.2%)Change over thirty days · from 2026-08-07
210 against 221Seven-day transits against baselineGREEN

The Dashboard says: Interoceanic shortcut. 95% of pre-war reference flow; 103% of the trailing mean. Below 85 percent of baseline is amber, below 70 percent is red.

Panama Canal, transits/day, 1 September 2025 to 6 September 2026Panama Canal in transits/day from 1 September 2025 to 6 September 2026, 365 observations. Last value 26 on 6 September 2026, down from 29 at the start of the window. Baseline 31.57 drawn dashed.204060802025-09-012025-12-012026-03-022026-06-022026-09-06BASELINE, DAILY 31.57TRANSITS/DAY
365 OBSERVATIONS · 2025-09-01 TO 2026-09-06 · LAST 365 OF 2800IMF PORTWATCH (T4) · DAILY VALUES
The last 30 observations as a table
Datetransits/day
2026-09-0626
2026-09-0534
2026-09-0430
2026-09-0330
2026-09-0230
2026-09-0131
2026-08-3129
2026-08-3031
2026-08-2930
2026-08-2829
2026-08-2731
2026-08-2628
2026-08-2525
2026-08-2430
2026-08-2328
2026-08-2225
2026-08-2126
2026-08-2027
2026-08-1931
2026-08-1827
2026-08-1723
2026-08-1633
2026-08-1531
2026-08-1431
2026-08-1328
2026-08-1229
2026-08-1130
2026-08-1026
2026-08-0929
2026-08-0828

About this series

Where the readings come from, how the source is graded, how often it updates, and what to bear in mind.
SourceIMF PortWatch
On the Dashboard: Maritime tab
TierT4
Cadence and lagAppended daily by the collectors; PortWatch itself publishes with a lag of several days.
CaveatsCounts are PortWatch's AIS-derived estimates. Gaps in the series are gaps in the upstream data and are not filled. Baselines and status colours on the Dashboard are the firm's derivation and are not in this file.

Download and cite

The package this series ships in, its checksum, and the citation line.
Packagemaritime-chokepoints · version 2026-09-12
Filesdata.csv · datasheet
SHA-256 of data.csve6bba9dcddf3a4c9a48b1eb25a9172229494835858d4e00b0c178fc62b0aaf53
Aegean Intelligence Group, "Maritime chokepoint transits", series Panama Canal (SER-MAR-PANAMA-CANAL), open data package maritime-chokepoints, version 2026-09-12, aegeanintel.com/data/series/panama-canal/. Free to use with attribution; no warranty.

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