Panama Canal Launches Mobile App

The Panama Canal has launched a new app for mobile devices in a communication effort to enable a broader audience to experience what the waterway has to offer.

“The new mobile applications will allow the Panama Canal to reach more people,” said canal administrator Jorge L. Quijano. “We have great content in our everyday operation of the waterway, and with the new mobile app we will be able to deliver it to our audiences.”

The Panama Canal mobile app is available for the following operating systems: iOS (Apple for both iPhone and iPad), Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry.

“This app is also a way to communicate about Panama around the world and for people to know more about our country and its canal,” Quijano added.

The application in its first version allows users to access live webcams, tide charts (for the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans), weather radar, photographs and videos, as well as current facts and information about visiting the canal, especially during this year in which the waterway celebrates its centennial.

From within the app, available in English and Spanish, content can be shared in several social networks. The new mobile app strengthens the current Panama Canal’s communication efforts digitally and online.

Visit the Panama Canal website at www.pancanal.com.