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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by schiffern on Sunday January 14, 2024 @04:38AM (#38988937)
The Japan Times article says they plan to initially carry 300,000 TEU per year in both directions, via three round-trip trains per day (~=137 TEU per train). That works out to 11.5 New Panamax ships per year in each direction.

It also says they eventually plan to increase the capacity to 1.4 million TEU per year, equivalent to 54 New Panamax container ships in each direction.

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by geraldhh on Sunday January 14, 2024 @04:45AM (#38988961)
> via three round-trip trains per day (~=137 TEU per train)

given 2-10k TEU per ship, that does not sound nearly enough

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by ImPostingOnHN on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:49AM (#38991991)
The math in the post you responded to checks out:

> That works out to 11.5 New Panamax ships per year in each direction

It seems like that it's enough, for 11.5 new panamax ships per year in each direction.

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by zeristor on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:35AM (#38989226)
300k TEU a DAY would sound about right.
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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by schiffern on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:49PM (#38994314)
That's roughly 10x the traffic through the canal.[0]

The project goal of 1.4 million containers is 16% as much traffic as the canal. For comparison the existing Panama Canal railway has a capacity of 2 million TEU/year.

[0] (yes these are annual not monthly) https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/panama/container-port-...

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