The United States Embassy in Panama delivered on Thursday, July 13, to the National Customs Authority (ANA) four Rapiscan Eagle M60 scanners and other elements, with a value of 15 million dollars, for port and customs control. 

With this new donation, “the U.S. Government seeks to support the efforts of the Panamanian Government’s program ‘Invisible Shield’, which

This was assured by the US Embassy in a statement, in which it recalled that last December it also delivered to the Central American country another three Rapiscan Eagle M60 model scanners that “were bought by the Panamanian Government with funds confiscated by the United States and then transferred to Panama under the US law of extinction of domain, in the Case of Speed Joyeros.”

This Thursday’s donation “also includes the license of the Certscan computer program, for the visualization of the images, as well as the remodeling and equipment of a monitoring center valued at 3.5 million dollars. In addition, it includes training for the officials of the National Customs Authority who will operate these equipment,” said the diplomatic legation. 

Panama has a network of ports on its Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where the seizures of drugs found in containers that are destined for countries in Europe in addition to the United States, mainly, have become frequent.