This is a wild travel video done by Casey Neistat and Max Joseph on their 10 day travel around the world!!  It has been viewed over 19 million times.  Click on the pic to see.

Last week the weather was again spectacular and the mountains called to me.  Here I can climb quickly out of town from 3,600 feet to over a mile high in 10 minutes right up to the pathway to the top of Volcan Baru.  It was a good excuse as I needed to shop for some […]

Here is a Time article with Panama’s pledge. Gonzalez-Revilla serves as Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to Washington, D.C. Four months since the so-called “Panama Papers” made global headlines, Panama continues a path of reform aimed at improving financial transparency and closing loopholes exploited by foreign tax cheats. Among our steps, we established an […]

With the entry into operation of the new locks, the Panama Canal is beginning to regain market lost in recent years to the Suez Canal. 60% of vessels transporting cargo between Asia and the United States now passes through the new locks, up from 40% earlier this year. Until the opening of the expanded canal, […]

This has been an extraordinary year for the Panama Canal. We reported record annual tonnage at the close of fiscal year 2015, we completed the Panama Canal’s first ever Expansion Program to create a new lane of traffic at the waterway, we inaugurated the new Canal with more than 40,000 people, both local and from […]

For the young people who will attend World Youth Day 2019 in Panama, the life and martyrdom of Blessed Oscar Romero is a shining example of Christian faith in the midst of struggles, said several bishops from Panama. The people of Central America “have a great affection” for the Salvadoran archbishop and remains a symbol […]

Increases in the average price of office space have been recorded due to less construction of these types of buildings in the first half of the year. Figures from a report by CBRE Panama cited by Capital.com.pa indicate that construction has declined in this segment due to increases in the price of materials and high […]

I think that this was a great response to a really over critical article by the New York Times and puts in perspective what The Panama Canal is all about. To The Editor of The New York Times. Re “Unlikely Hot Spot for Traffic Accidents: New Panama Canal” (news article, July 31): Your second major […]

Following the Expanded Panama Canal’s first month of operations, the Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano presented representatives of shipping lines and shipping agents with an update on the operations of the Expanded Canal, ensuring customers about the safe operation of the new locks. “We are very pleased with the first month of activity at […]

Check out this drone video posted by Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Luis Quijano showing a neopanamax containership entering the expanded Panama Canal’s new Agua Clara locks from Gatun Lake on the Atlantic side of the waterway. Administrator Quijano says the video illustrates the excellent work by Panama Canal ship pilots, but I actually think the […]