The European Cruise Company Pullmantur (PC) started its Caribbean season 2016-2017, this Monday, from the Panamanian terminal of Colon 2000, expecting to leave some 75 million dollars to the isthmus economy. That company, with its emblem ship Monarch, took the dock located in the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal as starting point of its […]
The future size of feeder vessels will determine how much the legacy locks at the Panama Canal will be utilized by ocean carriers, compared to the new section for big ships. The expanded section of the Panama Canal that opened for business in late June was built at a tremendous cost to support the trend […]
Now there are ten major international companies interested in taking part in the tender for 1500 square meters of commercial space in Terminal 1 of Tocumen Airport. Among the companies that expressed their interest to the administrators of Panama City airport are DFS, Duffry, Duty Free America, Heineman, DFAASS, Legarde, Penna and Flamingo. Prensa.com reports […]
This is the sad story of the banana crops around the world that are suffering greatly. A great book on the subjecyt and history here in Central America is called “The Banana People” by Clyde S. Stephens. Now on the story on the other side of the world on what is happening there. There’s a pisang […]
This article reads like a broken record. Let’s get this done already!! Two months after the award of a $20 million contract for an international promotion strategy, the adjudicating company is still carrying out its analysis. Once the company VML International has completed the contract review process, it must then be approved by the comptroller […]
Here is a story about a beautiful yacht sent to me by Dave Miller. At 107-meters long and rumored to cost over $100 million, New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart can probably boast that he has one of most badass super yachts on the planet. And after watching this video it would be hard disagree with him. […]
Yolanda Van Der Kolk and Rob Brown, dual Panamanian/Canadian citizens and founders of PaCT (the Panama and Coclé Theatre) have written a musical about Panama. The musical, which will give back to the country it is about, has big goals of reaching stages in Toronto, New York, and London. Rob and Yolanda’s work has been […]
From Fox Latino comes this article on Panama’s struggle with deforestation. Panama’s commitment to fight climate change seems convincing, given its ratification of the Paris Accord and its proposal to host a world emissions reductions center, but there is a gap between this foreign policy issue and the way it’s handling things at home. On […]
A bill proposes to allow municipalities to grant concessions to private companies to build and manage public parking lots in buildings or underground. From a statement issued by the National Assembly of Panama: With the aim of promoting the construction of public parking lots that meet the requirements of drivers, so that they can safely […]
In Europe an amendment has been approved to protect banana producing countries in the bloc from Latin American competition. The commission voted to “automatically activate a safeguard clause” for bananas from European overseas territories, said the French lawmaker Younous Omarjee from the Socialist Party, in a statement. Nacion.com reports that “…‘At a time when the […]