Panama Canal Authority mulls fee structure

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Bogota, Colombia—Tariffs for LNG cargo ships transiting the Panama Canal’s new third lane now under construction won’t be announced until next year, but they will be “much less” than the $1 million per passage fee that some analysts have predicted, a highly placed canal official said. Silvia Marucci, the Panama Canal Authority’s energy market specialist, said this week that a number of factors will go into calculating the rate for LNG vessels, which is expected to be one of the canal’s biggest new growth markets by virtue of the $5.25 billion expansion, now due for completion by May 2015.