The Panama Canal is expanding its long-term transit reservation program to the Panamax locks for the first time, giving more shipping customers the ability to secure passage months in advance...

October will see almost all global ocean carriers make a tentative return to Suez transits on Asia-Europe sailings, after revised pro forma shipping schedules show the Premier Alliance is set to send one of its vessels on the route through the Red Sea and Egyptian waterway.

The Panama Canal is easing restrictions on vessel draft and daily transits after improved rainfall and water-saving measures helped stabilize conditions in the waterway’s drought-sensitive watershed. The Panama Canal Authority said the...