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Here we see ships coming and going off the north end of the Panama Canal near Colon as the sun goes down. The Panama Canal Authority says that the waterway is working at more than 90 percent of its capacity and that in February it set new records for daily averages of transactions on the canal reservation system (20.4) and tonnage of cargo passing through (786,400 PC/UMS tons). If one asks people in the shipping industry, most of them will say that the main benefit of a canal expansion would not be the access to ships too large to fit through the current locks but simply a reduction in the waiting time for vessels to transit. Photo by Eric Jackson

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Fifer steps down at Petaquilla
Threatened world commercial fishery
Steel scrap suddenly valuable
The line at the canal's north end
Business & Economy Briefs