What does it cost for a ship or boat to use the Panama Canal?
A search on “panama canal fees” led us straight to the Panama branch of the Barwil worldwide shipping agency network. A couple of clicks into the site, we located a Panama Canal toll calculator. Enter the vessel’s length, beam, and something called the “PC/UMS Net” and it does the rest. The calculator even itemizes an additional 2,000 dollars of miscellaneous charges including taxes, telexes, and fumigation fees. Since we’re not very sea-savvy, we found ourselves wondering what PC/UMS Net was — we had a hunch it was a measurement of weight, but it sounded more complicated than roadside truck scales. We returned to our search results and clicked on “web page matches,” which took us to the Zonian Web Site. It offers a
