A mostly completed expansion of the Panama Canal is believed to be sufficient to accommodate anticipated increases in LNG export flows from the eastern US to Asia until 2030, according to a forecast by US LNG player Cheniere Energy.
Speaking at the LNG2019 conference in Shanghai last week, Cheniere Energy's commercial manager Serena Su said that the forecast uses both supply and demand-based methods to predict future transit through the canal, where expanded capacity allowing transit of larger vessels, also known as New Panamax, was opened in 2016.
