How Many Ships Pass Through The Panama Canal?

The number of ships that pass through the Panama Canal varies depending on whether one is taking in to consideration, the number of ships per year or per day. It is estimated that a whopping 32 ocean bound vessels pass through the Panama Canal on a daily basis. Every year approximately 13,100 ships pass through the Panama Canal although exact figures are not available. By the year 2002, 86 years after the Canal was opened in 1914 almost 800,000 ships have passed through the canal.

The Panama Canal is a shipping canal in the Isthumus of Panama. It is in Central America and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. It revolutionised shipping especially since now ships could avoid the dangerous and arduous routes via Cape Horn and Drake Passage. The idea of constructing such a canal was around since the sixteenth century but work began on the canal only in 1880 by the French. Ultimately the Americans completed the job and the canal opened in 1914.