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  • adjective The maximum width, length, and draft of a ship that can transit the locks on the Panama Canal.

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  • Right now, with its two lanes of locks that can handle ships up to 965 feet long and 106 feet wide - a size known as Panamax - the canal operates at or near its capacity of about 35 ships a day.

    NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011

  • The project will have wider, deeper locks that will allow larger ships -- up to 965 feet long and 106 feet wide, known as Panamax size -- to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice-versa, beginning in 2014.

    FOXNews.com Phil Keating 2011

  • Right now, with its two lanes of locks that can handle ships up to 965 feet long and 106 feet wide - a size known as Panamax - the canal operates at or near its capacity of about 35 ships a day.

    NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011

  • "Ocean Globe" in November 2008, the Company sold three more vessels in 2009, namely the Panamax "Island Globe" and the Handymax vessels "Gulf Globe" and "Lake Globe," all sold to unaffiliated third parties:

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • A "Panamax" unit of 55000 tons of yellow maize was also on offer for shipping from Durban by Durban Bulk Shipping.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Panamax: A "Panamax" crane can fully load and unload containers from a container ship capable of passing through the Panama Canal (ships of 12-13 container rows wide).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows anujgandhi30 2010

  • Panamax: A "Panamax" crane can fully load and unload containers from a container ship capable of passing through the Panama Canal (ships of 12-13 container rows wide).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • It's kind of like saying we shouldn't develop the Americas when all we have are little caravels, we should wait until we have Panamax class vessels so we can ship over entire buildings from Europe.

    New Uses for Constellation Systems? - NASA Watch 2009

  • In December, the SCSPA welcomed its 300th post-Panamax ship to Charleston and has handled 35 calls of ships of 8,000-TEU capacity or greater.

    Release: SC Port Volume Up 17 Percent 2011

  • Approximately 80 percent of the container ships on order are post-Panamax and, by end 2013, 50 percent of the capacity in operation will be post-Panamax, according to published reports.

    Release: SC Port Volume Up 17 Percent 2011

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