Severe drought causes Panama Canal to reduce ships per day
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This segment was previously recorded on November 3, 2023. The El Niño weather event caused the driest October on record for the Panama Canal since its origins in 1950. The event has caused the Panama Canal Authority to cut daily ship passages from 25 to 18 by February 2024. Questions now arise around global climate change and the impacts it has on global shipping. U.S. Energy Information Administration Industry Economist Josh Eiermann joins Yahoo Finance to discuss these impacts and what they mean in both the near and long term for global shipping. On the immediate impact, Eiermann states: “What we are seeing that is more ships now are being […]