Luke Kawa writes for Bloomberg about the signs that are pointing to a looming slowdown in global trade growth, according to Morgan Stanley. Each component of the bank’s proprietary global trade leading indicator — save for the U.S. dollar — declined in April to mark back-to-back drops for the index, which is used to forecast […]
Nicholas Gill takes us to the Azuero Penninsula and out to Playa Venao to visit a small but wonderful restaurant called Panga. Panga, on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama, is over 60 miles from the nearest supermarket. “It’s like I live on a boat,” said Andrés Morataya, the restaurant’s chef. Yet what Panga lacks is […]
This is a great National Geographic Article written by Sarah Gibens. For almost 100 years, Coíba was inhabited only by criminals and political prisoners. Now it’s one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. Beautiful but extremely dangerous—that’s how many Panamanians think of the island of Coíba 30 miles from their southern coast. The largest […]
Jenny Berg writes in Bravo Jet Set about Panama as an option for your honeymoon. Heck, pretend it is your honeymoon and come visit us! Let’s get this out of the way: The Panama Canal is, indeed, a marvelous feat of engineering. But — surprise! — there’s more to Panama City than a set of […]
Jesse Delia at The New York Times explores the darkness in search of a female glass frog. It was around 4 a.m. And for Jesse Delia, a graduate student conducting fieldwork in Panama, it had been a long night. His project wasn’t going well, and he was ready to head home. On his way back […]
In March the growth in inventories in most varieties reinforces the fact that the market lacks any clear signals of a reverse in the current downward trend. From the monthly report by the International Coffee Organization (ICO): In March, the ICO composite indicator price fell slightly. While Robustas remained broadly stable, Arabica prices were under […]
Here is a great article with some good ideas if you are ever asked to give up your seat as appeared in Smarter Travel magazine. The whole unhappy story about the doctor hauled off a United flight raises the question of what to do if you’re ever caught in a similar situation. Here’s what you […]
The Panama Canal on Tuesday welcomed the largest vessel to transit through the Expanded Canal since its inauguration in June 2016. The 13,092 TEU Neopanamax containership COSCO Development, measuring 366 meters in length and 48.2 meters in beam, is sailing from Asia and will soon become the largest ship to arrive on the U.S. East […]
Mike Shuler reports in gCaptain about this really cool ship and a billionaire who knows how to pay it forward! Norwegian shipping and offshore magnate Kjell Inge Roekke plans give away the ‘lion’s share’ of his estimated $2 billion fortune beginning with the construction of a large research and expedition ship to study ocean sustainability. The […]
What happened to the view? It is 5.30 am and I am first up on the deck, binoculars in one hand and field guide in the other. But yesterday’s breathtaking forest panorama has been swallowed by a peasouper. Perhaps I should have stayed in bed. Happily, the mist hasn’t fazed the birds. The branches […]