AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT v. 3-2-2011 ADVISORIES ARE AVAILABLE AT http://www.pancanal.com FOR ETAS OR DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH OUR OFFICES, REFER TO NOTICE N-3-2011 OP’S ADVISORY TO SHIPPING No. A-02 -2011 February 8, 2011 TO : All Shipping Agents, Owners, and Operators SUBJECT: Monthly Canal Operations Summary -JANUARY 2011 1. Panama Canal Statistical Summary: a. Transit Pilot Force .................................................................................................284 b. Pilots in Training .................................................................................................0 c. Tugs .................................................................................................30 d. Locomotives ..................................................................................................100 2. Traffic Statistics: Daily Average High Low Arrivals 38.06 47 29 Oceangoing Transits 37.87 43 32 Canal Waters Time (hours) 26.08 36.22 16.61 In-Transit Time (hours) 9.95 11.99 8.13 Oceangoing Transits: Total Daily Average Percentage Vessels of less than 91 ́ beam 466 15.03 39.69 Vessels 91 ́ beam and over 708 22.84 60.31 Total: 1174 37.87 Vessels 100’ beam and over 599 19.32 51.02 Vessels 900 ́ length and over 130 4.19 11.07 Booking Slots: Available Used Percentage Large Vessels (beam 91' and over) 527 402 76.28 Regular Vessels (beam less than 91') 248 195 78.63 *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 February 28, 2011 . ORIGINAL SIGNED _______________________________ Manuel E. Benitez Executive Vice President of Operations AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT v. 28-01-2011 OP, February 8, 2011 Subject: Monthly Canal Operations Summary - JANUARY 2011 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. THE PANAMA CANAL AUTHORITY WILL SPONSOR A LOGISTICS CONFERENCE IN ORLANDO AND HOST MAJOR RETAILERS IN PANAMA The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will sponsor the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Logistics Conference in Orlando, Florida, February 20-23, 2011. The conference will bring together representatives of all major retail and consumer product segments, along with relevant solutions providers. In addition, the ACP will host a selected number of representatives from major retails for a post-conference trip to Panama. This trip scheduled to take place February 23-25, and will include meetings with key government officials and business leaders, including Panamanian Vice Minister of Foreign Trade José Domingo Arias. In addition, tours to the country’s logistics facilities will include the Manzanillo Internat