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→Passenger service and freight capacity: edited train capacity measurements for clarity. Previous entry looked like dimensions
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[[File:Railway panama.jpg|thumb|right|Panama Canal Railway Pacific container terminal|upright=1.2]]
For freight services&nbsp;– that is, transporting containers across the isthmus&nbsp;– the initial capacity allows for 10 trains to run in each direction per 24 hours. With the current rail configuration, this could be extended to a maximum of 32 trains per 24 hours. A train is composed of [[Double-stack rail transport|double-stack]] bulkhead-type rail cars, typically containing 75 containers, a mix of 60&nbsp;×sixty&nbsp;40' and 15&nbsp;×fifteen&nbsp;20' containers. The basic capacity is around 500,000 container moves a year (approximately 900,000 [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|TEU]]), with a maximum capacity of 2 million TEU per year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panarail.com/en/cargo/index.html|title=Capacity|access-date=2014-10-16}}</ref>
 
Freight trains are loaded and unloaded in the railway terminals by portal cranes, serving {{convert|3000|ft|m|sigfig=2|abbr=on}} long tracks that can be expanded into six tracks. Containers are transported to and from nearby dock container stacks by truck on a dedicated road.
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