PANAMA CITY
Nike Shox NZ Blancas Rojas España , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The newly expanded Panama Canal said on Wednesday it expected some 235 cruise ships to cross the larger waterway this winter high season.
The canal's 2017-2018 cruise season will officially kick off on Oct. 2 with the Island Princess, the first cruise ship to include voyages through the larger locks on its regular itinerary, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) said in a statement.
A larger canal with bigger locks were built to accommodate today's neopanamax ships -- behemoth container carriers named after the expanded waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans -- and inaugurated in June 2016.
The Island Princess' 19-day itinerary begins in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, California, then continues down the west coast towards Central America
Nike Shox NZ Blancas Plata España , visiting ports in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua before returning to its home port of Los Angeles.
