{"id":243061,"date":"2026-08-22T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/panama-canal-to-reduce-shipping-as-el-nino-strikes-vital-route"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:08:19","slug":"panama-canal-to-reduce-shipping-as-el-nino-strikes-vital-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/panama-canal-to-reduce-shipping-as-el-nino-strikes-vital-route","title":{"rendered":"Panama canal to reduce shipping as El Ni\u00f1o strikes vital route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/panama-canal-to-reduce-shipping-as-el-nino-strikes-vital-route.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine of 10 ships using the canal do so with a reservation, and the remaining slots are auctioned off.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Iran war the average winning bid in these auctions was $135,000. But in April one shipping company eager to use the canal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/12\/panama-canal-fees-iran-war-el-nino-ship-jump-queue\">paid a whopping $4m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The operator said it does not rule out further restrictions on shipping depending on how much it rains in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of 10 ships using the canal do so with a reservation, and the remaining slots are auctioned off. Before the Iran war the average winning bid in these auctions was $135,000. But in April one shipping company eager to use the canal paid a whopping $4m. The operator said it does not rule out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}