Panama Canal Predicts Fivefold Increase in LNG Cargoes


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The Panama Canal Authority believes that it could handle up to 30 million tonnes per annum of American natural gas by 2020, a fivefold increase over last year’s numbers. In an interview with Reuters, ACP administrator Jorge Quijano said that he expected volumes to rise as more LNG plants come online on the U.S. Gulf Coast. At […]

April 23, 2018

What I am reading (drinking) now


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    My friend Geoffrey McRae sent me this article and I again find myself attracted to Argentina as a future destination.  He  has perhaps the best real estate representation in the field of agriculture and lifestyle in South America.  He recently won  Agricultural Real Estate Service Provider of the Year in Argentina for 2018’.  Wine has […]

April 23, 2018

Tender: $13 million Social Housing


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Panama Government Purchase 2018-0-14-0-09-LV-013035:    “Supply of materials, labor, equipment and administration for the construction works of five hundred (500) social interest houses, with rbs kits, as part of the Techos de Esperanza program, for the province of Veraguas, towns of Atalaya, San Francisco, Calobre and Santiago.” Reference value: $6.975.000   The deadline for receipt […]

April 17, 2018

Mining and Bureaucracy


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In Panama, it is being claimed that gold mining activity at the Cerro Quema mine will set back 18 months, due to a delay in approving the environmental study and the extension of a concession on the part of the government. General managers of the company Minera Cerro Quema, in charge of the concession for […]

April 17, 2018

Black Gold, from tank to table


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The chamber inside LaPaz Farm is so clean it almost feels like an operating room. Before we walked into the room, Sabine Mader, the manager of the farm, asks us to put on white coats, gloves and hair nets—and a beard net for my husband. Inside the chamber, a fish cutter is waiting with a […]

April 17, 2018