Marine traffic at Panama Canal While our Live Map allows you to monitor traffic at the Panama Canal in real time, our playback feature allows you to look back at what happened over the last 24 hours. This video, highlighting a day’s worth of activity, shows just how important the Panama Canal is to world shipping. Did you know the expanded Panama Canal recently reached the 10,000 transit milestone when the SK Resolute tanker, transporting LNG from the US to China, passed through? This was the SK

The Panama Canal runs about 40 miles (65 km) across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Completed in 1914, it saves ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the United States up to 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km). Between 2007 and 2016, the canal underwent a major expansion project that doubled its capacity and allowed larger ships to pass through it. 9.119829°, -79.754230° Source imagery: Google Timelapse | Daily Overview