All of the containership services that were diverted from the Panama Canal since
November 2023 have returned to their regular Panama transits as of May 2024.
These services were forced to switch to the longer route initially through the
Suez Canal and then to the Cape of Good Hope after the Red Sea crisis escalated
at the end of 2023.
With the increase in the number of neo-panamax transit slots at the Panama Canal
from May, carriers are bringing back all of these services to Panama which would