Water

Seahound / SeaLens

Chokepoints
Initial reference

Panama Canal

Central America · Caribbean Sea / Pacific Ocean

8

Ports

6

WPI ports

2

Terminals

0

Geo states

Decision Summary

Not instrumented

No SAR state

Latest baseline d

n/a

Latest weather d

n/a

Source coverage

75%

Strategic exposure

0

8 assigned ports, 1 corridor records, 1 route links,3 monitoring overlays, and 0 source-backed advisories are attached to this chokepoint.

Overview

Bordering states

Panama

Narrowest width

n/a

Sentinel-1 revisit

12 d

Baseline start

Oct 01, 2025

Baseline end

Feb 22, 2026

Source

initial_lanedb_atlas_seed

monitoring_zone_bbox = [-80.200, 8.800, -79.300, 9.500]

Assigned Ports

4 oil-capable · 1 LNG-capable · 2 terminals

Explorer
PortTypeCountryFacilitiesSource
Bahia De Las MinasCOMMERCIALPanamacrude_oil, refined_petroleum, liquid_bulk
Source-backed
BalboaCOMMERCIALPanamacrude_oil, refined_petroleum
Source-backed
Balboa PortCOMMERCIALPanamacontainerized_goods, bulk
Initial reference
Cristobal PortCOMMERCIALPanamacontainerized_goods, bulk
Initial reference
Puerto ColonTERMINALPanamacrude_oil, refined_petroleum, containerized_goods
Source-backed
Puerto CristobalTERMINALPanamacrude_oil, refined_petroleum, lng
Source-backed
Punta RinconCOMMERCIALPanamacontainerized_goods, solid_bulk
Source-backed
VacamonteCOMMERCIALPanaman/a
Source-backed

Commodity Exposure

Containerized Goods

BIDIRECTIONAL · INDUSTRIAL

Volume

n/a

Unit

TEU

Source

Panama Canal Authority statistics

Year

2023

Exposure row identifies container relevance; volume needs normalized commodity-specific transit methodology.

Grain

BIDIRECTIONAL · AGRICULTURAL

Volume

n/a

Unit

million tonnes per year

Source

Panama Canal Authority statistics

Year

2023

Exposure row identifies grain relevance; volume needs normalized commodity-specific transit methodology.

GeoEmbedding State

No geoEmbedding states yet

This chokepoint has SeaLens topology but no SARFormer/geoEmbedding time series loaded.