Record Panama Canal toll paid by Japanese container ship

[MarkR]

@Goofyhoofy

Averages probably don’t count for much, but it takes an average of $150,000 a day to run a cargo ship, and “going the long way” will add at least a couple months to the voyage. So 60 x 150,000 = $9,000,000. The other option being, of course, wait your turn in line and pay the crew for an extra week, or get the Disney “all in” pass for $4M.

If it’s just a week then it’s obviously worth waiting. In almost all cases. Unless you are carrying produce that can spoil. But what if there are 1000 ships and the canal can only handle 800 of them? Which 200 have to take the long way around? Usually the 200 that can’t pay as much as the 800 can.