Motta revels in Panama Tocumen T2 duty-free concession win


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Motta Internacional has won one of the two highly sought-after duty-free concessions at Panama Tocumen International Airport’s Terminal Two. The 10-year contract win will see Motta company Attenza Duty Free further expand its footprint in travel-retail in the region. Attenza will operate a multi-category duty-free store across 1,452sqm of retail space at the expanded Panamanian […]

August 28, 2018

Panama: Fiscal Figures up to June 2018


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In the first semester, the fiscal deficit of the non-financial public sector was 1.6% of GDP, registering an increase of almost $1 billion with respect to the same period in 2017. From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy: The results of the Fiscal Balance of the Non-Financial Public Sector (SPNF), corresponding to the […]

August 28, 2018

Health Diplomacy: Inside the hospital ship Comfort


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A look inside the U.S. Navy’s floating hospital, the USNS Comfort, when the ship offered aid to Nicaragua in 2007. By Ricardo López See the video here U.S. Navy hospital ship to comfort Venezuelan migrants Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday he would dispatch a U.S. Navy hospital ship to the Colombian coast to help […]

August 28, 2018

Introducing SONAR’s ‘Panama spread’


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FreightWaves has reported on how the expanded Panama Canal, which can now accommodate larger ships in greater numbers, has altered trade flows on the North American continent. The expansion, completed on June 26, 2016, doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal. East Coast ports invested billions of dollars dredging their harbors so larger vessels could […]

August 28, 2018

Panama: Providing faster humanitarian relief


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A new Humanitarian Hub in Panama will help provide lifesaving support to vulnerable communities in emergency situations throughout the region. From hurricanes and earthquakes to volcanic eruptions and flooding, countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are regularly exposed to natural disasters. The region, which naturally sits on territory prone to such events, is also […]

August 28, 2018