Panama Canal to handle 90% of global LNG fleet

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Singapore—A current expansion of the Panama Canal could allow close to 90% of the world’s LNG vessel fleet to pass through by 2015, providing significant potential time and cost savings to LNG buyers and producers, a Panama Canal Authority executive said Wednesday. Currently the canal can accommodate only 8.6% of the world’s existing LNG fleet, and about a quarter of the current orderbook for vessels on order. This will rise to 88% of the global fleet by 2015 and close to 100% of the orderbook by then, according to Silvia Marucci, Senior Specialist for the liquid bulk segment at the Panama Canal Authority, in a presentation to the Gas Asia Summit as part of Singapore International Energy Week.