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New regulations governing the amount of sulphur cruse ships may admit whilst in Sydney harbour comes into effect on 1st October 2015. The ships will have to use low sulphur  fuel  01% or less. for more details see The world maritime news

The size of ships that can traverse the Panama canal will be reduced in september draft will be 39 ft from 39.5ft due to a drought caused by ELNino. This is expected to effect 20% of  ships that pass through the canal.    This is not the first time this has happened back in 1998 the limit was reduced. More     BBC       Economic Times