No one is happier than the U.S. shale industry, which now has its sights set on Asia. This in from Bloomberg. When the Panama Canal’s expanded locks slid open in late June, perhaps no one was happier than executives in the U.S. shale industry. With the goal of making the U.S. a global powerhouse for […]

Thank goodness for rain on Gatun Lake! The Panama Canal Authority has revised upward the draft restriction for vessels transiting the Neopanamax locks to 13.41 meters (44 feet) effective immediately. “This draft limit is based on the current level of Gatun Lake and the weather forecast for the following weeks,” the authority, also known as […]

Another proposal in addition to the one suggested to the government by the company Del Monte, seeks to revive banana production on the 1,700 hectares owned by the former employees of Coosemupar. The proposal put forward by the Atlantic Banana Cooperative (Cobana) includes a feasibility study which states that “… the projection is that from […]

At the end of the year-end a $30 million tender will be published to build a cruise ship port in an area measuring 30 hectares in Perico Island, on the Amador Causeway. In addition to construction of the port, the tender specifications include the design and construction of commercial spaces to provide services for the […]

A 42-year-old South African woman has been arrested at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama with 5kg of cocaine worth more than R4.5-million, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) said on Friday. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda of the Hawks said: “The woman was about to board a flight to Lisbon via Sao Jose and […]

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 […]