The amount of shipped cargo increasing is not the only issue; vessel sizes have grown as well. Panamax ships -- a name that describes the maximum sized ship that will fit through the Panama Canal ...

The difference between container ships and general cargo ships is that container ships ... feeder max, feedermax, Panamax, Post-Panamax, Neopanamax, and the ultra-large container vessel.

Of the total transits, 7,084 were panamax vessels and the rest ... when some 13,900 ships with 520 million tons of cargo are expected to pass through. The 80-kilometer Panama Canal was inaugurated ...