Permitting deadline for Colombia-Panama link pushed back to 2023


News from Panama

Panama’s public services regulator Asep has granted additional time to Interconexión Colombia Panamá (ICP) to submit required documents for the planned power interconnection between the countries. ICP now has until March 2023 to file the approved environmental impact study for the link’s construction and operation. Under the last extension, the deadline had been September 2020, when the developer […]

April 20, 2021

Studies for Line 5 of the Panama Subway


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The Central American Bank for Economic Integration will execute a non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation to carry out studies to identify the feasibility of developing the railway network of Line 5 of the Panama Subway. The non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation amounts to $630,000 and was recently approved by the Republic of Korea within the framework of the CABEI-Korea Sole […]

April 20, 2021

12 Tons of green exportable coffee heading to Japan


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Saturday at 6 am, our team was gathered on Finca Cuatro Caminos, where our coffee mill, laboratory, and storage facility is located, to load 12 tons of coffee into a container bound for Japan. There were mixed emotions of both excitement and relief, as this container was initially scheduled to set sail in the summer […]

April 20, 2021

Vancouver’s historical connection to Panama


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After seven years’ work, George Washington Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, completing a task that stymied two other engineers. He commenced his first real engineering work as a lieutenant at the Vancouver Barracks, and performed many routine duties, including planning the headquarters building, designing the new post cemetery, mapping telegraph lines and creating […]

April 20, 2021

Panama- Security forces seize 35 tons of drugs


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More than 35 tons of drugs have seized, in operations by units of the National Police, the National Aeronaval Service [Senan] and the National Border Service [Senafront], between January 1 and April 15, some 13 tons more than in the same period last year. Cocaine formed 61% of the seizures, followed by marijuana (21%). There […]

April 20, 2021