On Monday the 10th of August the Panama Canal marked its 10,000 transits through the expanded locks of the canal. This has been achieved in the same week when the Panama Canal celebrates its 106 years of operations. 

"Reaching this mark just over four years after the opening of the expanded Canal, reaffirms the competitiveness of the interoceanic highway, backed by the continuous, safe and reliable service that we have maintained in the midst of the current world situation", said the Canal administrator, Ricaurte Vásquez Morales.