ADVISORIES ARE AVAILABLE AT http://www.pancanal.com FOR ETAS OR DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH OUR OFFICES, REFER TO NOTICE N-3-2020 Panama Canal Authority Vice Presidency for Operations Advisory to Shipping No. A-41-2020 December 10, 2020 TO : All Shipping Agents, Owners, and Operators SUBJECT: Gatun Locks Lane Outage and the Transit Reservation System Beginning at 1800 hours on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, until 0600 hours on Thursday, December 17, 2020 (36 hours), the East Lane of Gatun Locks will be out of service for scheduled miter gate repairs. Concurrently, the East Lane of Miraflores Locks and the West Lane of Pedro Miguel Locks will also be out of service for 24 and 12 hours respectively, in order to perform miter gate maintenance. As a result, and in accordance with the rules governing the Transit Reservation System (NT Notice to Shipping No. N-7-2020), Condition 2 for the Panamax locks will be in effect on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Applications for reserved transits while Condition 2 is in effect will be received beginning at 0900 hours on Sunday, December 13, 2020. The Just-InTime (JIT) transit slots available for supers and regulars transiting without restrictions will be one for each direction. The booking slots available through the auction process, and the slots for Neopanamax vessels, will remain unchanged during this period. ORIGINAL SIGNED Ilya R. Espino de Marotta Deputy Administrator and Vice President for Operations 3654-A (OP-I) V. 1/10/2020