Indonesias Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno L.P Marsudi, held a bilateral meeting with the Vice President of Panama, Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, where the two agreed to strengthen connectivity to boost bilateral cooperation. The bilateral meeting was held on the sidelines of the Forum Ministerial Meeting of East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) in […]
Panama’s Cinta Costera 3 (“Coastal Beltway” in English) has won this year’s Global Best Project in Roads and Highways award in Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) third annual competition. Louis Berger provided design, technical advice and quality control services for the $345 million project that has helped transform the city by improving mobility along this major axis. […]
NUWire Investors published this story written by a friend of mine about the resurgence of sales and construction in Panama City. Developers in Panama City have started offering pre-construction sales on projects again, sending a clear signal that the property market in the Panama capital is entering a new growth phase. This is the first […]
PRI put out a good article on some of the concerns of the huge ships that must navigate into the new locks. One hundred and one years ago this month, the first ship sailed through the Panama Canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The 48-mile waterway has been called one of the seven […]
Bloomberg reports on the current (in)activity of the Nicaragua Canal. Deep on the southeastern side of Lake Nicaragua, along a bumpy dirt road that climbs gently through lush-green forest, sits the tiny town of El Tule. It is quintessential rural Central America: Chickens roam outside tin-roofed homes while pigs stand tied to trees, awaiting slaughter; […]
As many may be aware, the Panama Canal is being expanded to double its capacity. The construction has been on track since 2007, scheduled for completion in 2016. The new canal will be able to support: Container ships up 13,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (or TEUs), up from roughly 5,000 TEUs. Bulk commodity ships like […]
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My friend Chuck Bolotin has matured his Web site and now he can publish unbiased survey stats such as the ones addressed to this subject. As another proponent of living in Panama, I salute his efforts. This in from his article that appeared in The Street. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — A little more than two […]
This Panama hat woven by Simon Espinal may be the finest one ever made. NPR put out this story on August 8 and received inquiries about seeing the finished product and here it is. “Would like to have seen a photo of the completed hat.” That’s what one commenter noted when we ran a story […]
Panama Fruit has announced the beginning of operations of its new storage and processing plant for pineapple and orange juice, located in the province of Cocle. Panama Fruit explained that in the plant they will be processing pineapples and fruit that farmers can not sell in the local or international market. The president of the […]