A third LNG vessel, the Maran Gas Delphi, is expected to transit the Panama Canal on Wednesday, the Panama Canal Authority said Tuesday.
The vessel is scheduled to arrive at the Atlantic Port of Cristobal at 3 am EST and is expected to reach the Port of Balboa on the Pacific side at 5:45 pm.
The Shell-controlled vessel loaded at the Cheniere-operated Sabine Pass liquefaction facility in the US Gulf Coast on July 28 and is currently in the Caribbean sea headed toward the Panama Canal, cFlow, Platts trade-flow software, showed Tuesday. Shell has annual offtake of 3.5 million mt from Sabine Pass Train 1.
This is the second Shell-controlled vessel to transit the Panama Canal, with the first being the Maran Gas Apollonia on July 25. The vessel was also laden with cargo sourced from Sabine Pass and is currently in the North Pacific Ocean headed toward China, according to cFlow.
The BP-controlled British Merchant was the second vessel to make the journey through the canal and is currently discharging a Trinidad and Tobago-sourced cargo into Mexico's Manzanillo terminal.
