China Cosco Shipping has won the lottery for the first transit through the Panama Canal’s third lane during the waterway’s inauguration on Sunday, 26 June. The shipping line’s 9,400 teu-container vessel Andronikos will be making the inaugural transit. The draw took place Friday morning at the Panama Canal Administration Building, in which a Notary Public served as witness, among invited attendees. The Norwegian/Swedish shipping line Wallenius Wilhemsen Lines (WWL) and the Chinese shipping line China Cosco Shipping were the only shipping lines participating in the lottery.
