Competition for volumes between the Panama and Suez Canals reached a deadlock in September with both seeing a 3% increase in transits vs. a year earlier. Panama likely did better in terms of volumes with larger, neopanamax vessels driving a potential 16% rise in volumes. Suez meanwhile only saw an increase because of tankers – especially LNG – with container-line transits having fallen by 2%. The widening China-U.S. trade spat, with duties covering $360 billion of bilateral trade by the end of September, may put pressure on both Canals’ volumes. Panama’s diversion of Asian...