The Shipping Industry Reckons with a Drier Panama

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This time it's the Panama Canal's chance to play global supply chain bad boy.

This year, a severe drought in Panama has led the local water authority to impose progressively more onerous restrictions on ships using its famous canal. While the situation isn't quite as dramatic -- or as memeable -- as when the Ever Given wedged itself across the Suez, it's potentially more sinister as extreme weather conditions track with climate change.

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Source Fool.com