AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR OPERATIONS v. 3- 2-2011 ADVISORIES ARE AVAILABLE AT http://www.pancanal.com FOR ETAS OR DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH OUR OFFICES, REFER TO NOTICE N-3-2014 ADVISORY TO SHIPPING No. A-17-2014 August 5, 2014 TO: All Shipping Agents, Owners, and Operators SUBJECT: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – JULY 2014 1. Panama Canal Statistical Summary: a. Transit Pilot Force ................................................................................................. 287 b. Pilots in Training ................................................................................................. 0 c. Tugs ................................................................................................. 42 d. Locomotives .................................................................................................. 100 2. Traffic Statistics: Daily Average High Low Arrivals 30.87 39 20 Oceangoing Transits 30.65 35 26 Canal Waters Time (hours) 24.34 28.12 16.06 In-Transit Time (hours) 11.53 13.12 8.96 Oceangoing Transits: Total Daily Average Percentage Vessels of less than 91' beam 278 8.97 29.26 Vessels 91 ́ beam and over 672 21.68 70.74 Total: 950 30.65 100 Vessels 100' beam and over 579 18.68 60.95 Vessels 900' length and over 111 3.58 11.68 Booking Slots: Available Used Percentage Large Vessels (beam 91' and over) 527* 335* 1 63.57 Regular Vessels (beam less than 91') 248* 110* 1 44.35 Regular Vessels (up to 300' in length) 0 0 0.00 Auctioned booking slots 2 0 0.00 *Does not include additional auctioned booking slots ¹ Includes booked transits only 3. The following page provides the scheduled locks maintenance work and other items of interest to the shipping community. 4. This advisory will be canceled for record purposes on August 31, 2014. ORIGINAL SIGNED Esteban G. Sáenz Executive Vice President for Operations AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR OPERATIONS v. 28-01-2011 OP, August 5, 2014 Subject: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – JULY 2014 SCHEDULE OF LOCKS MAINTENANCE OUTAGES Dates Days/Hrs Miraflores Pedro Miguel Gatun Estimated Transit Capacity 1 Status Aug 26 - Sep 2, 2014 8 days West Lane 26-28 Confirmed Note: Changes in red. 1 The actual transit capacity may vary from day to day and will depend on vessel mix, transit restrictions and type of maintenance work being performed. Normally, during periods of reduced transit capacity, a corresponding reduction in the number of available reserved transit slots is ordered by the Authority. During these periods, non-booked vessels may experience delays in transiting. Whenever a set of locks requires an outage of one of its two lanes, advantage may be taken by performing simultaneous work at other locks. First Gates Moved to New Locks for the Panama Canal Expansion The Panama Canal Expansion has reached another important milestone with the transfer of the first gates to the new locks complex in the Atlantic side. "This is a very important operation because it involved the first movement of the gates from the special dock where they were unloaded to the lower chamber of the new locks," said Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator Jorge L. Quijano. The Administrator explained that the process was carried out following rigorous safety measures to ensure that the more than 3,000-ton steel structures could be moved to the dry lock chambers using the pavement ramp built for this purpose. Eight of t