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-3-2012 ADVISORY TO SHIPPING No. A-30-2012 December 4, 2012 TO : All Shipping Agents, Owners, and Operators SUBJECT: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – November 2012 1. Panama Canal Statistical Summary: a. Transit Pilot Force ................................................................................................. 297 b. Pilots in Training ................................................................................................. 8 c. Tugs ................................................................................................. 32 d. Locomotives .................................................................................................. 100 2. Traffic Statistics: Daily Average High Low Arrivals 34.03 51 18 Oceangoing Transits 34.37 39 29 Canal Waters Time (hours) 24.62 34.89 19.94 In-Transit Time (hours) 11.33 12.90 9.50 Oceangoing Transits: Total Daily Average Percentage Vessels of less than 91' beam 320 10.67 31.04 Vessels 91 ́ beam and over 711 23.70 68.96 Total: 1031 34.37 100 Vessels 100' beam and over 615 20.50 59.65 Vessels 900' length and over 136 4.53 13.19 Booking Slots: Available Used Percentage Large Vessels (beam 91' and over) 510* 313* 1 61.37 Regular Vessels (beam less than 91') 240 * 99* 1 41.25 Regular Vessels (up to 300' in length) 0 0 0 Auctioned booking slots 0 0 0 *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 December 31, 2012. 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, December 4, 2012 Subject: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – NOVEMBER 2012 1 The normal transit capacity of the Panama Canal is 38-40 vessels per day, depending on vessel mix and other factors. This capacity is reduced during locks maintenance work, as indicated in the above table. Consequently, vessels may experience delays in transiting. Normally, during these periods, the Panama Canal Transit Reservation System slots are fully utilized. Whenever a set of locks requires a major outage of one of its two lanes for dry chamber inspection, miter gate repairs, tow track work or other major maintenance/improvement projects, advantage may be taken of this requirement to perform simultaneous single lane outages for additional maintenance at other locks. New access channel for the expanded Canal is finalized in the Pacific South of the Centennial Bridge, a few meters from Pedro Miguel Locks, one can see the new access channel that will join the Third Set of Locks with the Culebra Cut. After two years the excavation and dredging work was completed October 2012. Four million cubic meters of material were removed from the area that will become the entrance for new-panamax vessels on the Pacific side, once the expanded Canal begins operating. The contract was awarded to the Belgian company Jan de Nul on August 16, 2010, and work began three months later. The last cubic meter of sub-aquatic material was removed by the Marco Polo Dredge on October 16