AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR OPERATIONS v. 3- 2-2011 ADVISORIES ARE AVAILABLE AT http://www.pancanal.com FOR ETAS OR DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH OUR OFFICES, REFER TO NOTICE N-3-2014 ADVISORY TO SHIPPING No. A-15-2014 July 2, 2014 TO: All Shipping Agents, Owners, and Operators SUBJECT: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – JUNE 2014 1. Panama Canal Statistical Summary: a. Transit Pilot Force ................................................................................................. 280 b. Pilots in Training ................................................................................................. 8 c. Tugs ................................................................................................. 42 d. Locomotives .................................................................................................. 100 2. Traffic Statistics: Daily Average High Low Arrivals 29.13 43 18 Oceangoing Transits 29.60 34 21 Canal Waters Time (hours) 23.77 30.28 17.52 In-Transit Time (hours) 11.47 13.48 9.60 Oceangoing Transits: Total Daily Average Percentage Vessels of less than 91' beam 272 9.07 30.63 Vessels 91 ́ beam and over 616 20.53 69.37 Total: 888 29.60 100 Vessels 100' beam and over 532 17.73 59.91 Vessels 900' length and over 109 3.63 12.27 Booking Slots: Available Used Percentage Large Vessels (beam 91' and over) 510* 316* 1 61.96 Regular Vessels (beam less than 91') 240* 93* 1 38.75 Regular Vessels (up to 300' in length) 0 0 0.00 Auctioned booking slots 2 0 0.00 *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 July 31, 2014. ORIGINAL SIGNED Esteban G. Sáenz Executive Vice President for Operations AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ 3654 (OPXI) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR OPERATIONS v. 28-01-2011 OP, July 2, 2014 Subject: Monthly Canal Operations Summary – JUNE 2014 SCHEDULE OF LOCKS MAINTENANCE OUTAGES Dates Days/Hrs Miraflores Pedro Miguel Gatun Estimated Transit Capacity 1 Status Aug 26 - Sep 2, 2014 8 days West Lane 26-28 Confirmed Note: Changes in red. 1 The actual transit capacity may vary from day to day and will depend on vessel mix, transit restrictions and type of maintenance work being performed. Normally, during periods of reduced transit capacity, a corresponding reduction in the number of available reserved transit slots is ordered by the Authority. During these periods, non-booked vessels may experience delays in transiting. Whenever a set of locks requires an outage of one of its two lanes, advantage may be taken by performing simultaneous work at other locks. Second Shipment of new gates arrived at the Panama Canal In another step forward for the Panama Canal Expansion Program, the second shipment of four rolling gates for the Third Set of Locks arrived June 10 th from port of Trieste, Italy, to the waterway's Atlantic side on board the semi-submersible vessel STX Sun Rise. “This is another milestone as it completes half of the 16 gates that will be used in the new locks”, said the administrator of the Panama Canal Authority, Jorge Luis Quijano. Following a nearly one-month long journey, the ship completed its second trip that began in mid-May in the Port of Trieste, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Differing from the first shipment, these gates have two differ