{"id":9574,"date":"2014-02-04T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2014-02-04T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:32:43","slug":"panama-challenging-florida-as-gateway-to-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panama-challenging-florida-as-gateway-to-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama challenging Florida as gateway to Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/panamahub.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9575\" title=\"panamahub\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/panamahub.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/panamahub.png 698w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/panamahub-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a great graphic.\u00a0 Google Earth always puts things in a true perspective and it is obvious why Panama is the gateway to the Americas.\u00a0 Here is a great article in the Jacksonville Business Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Florida may soon see an increase in the sale of blueberries and strawberries to Panama, but Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam warned late last week the state may find itself challenged as the region\u2019s economic hub by the Central American nation.<\/p>\n<p>While the Sunshine State has been bulking up its ports and  transportation infrastructure in anticipation of the completion of the  widening of the Panama Canal, Florida may need to up its game amid  infrastructure investments being made by Panama, Putnam said.<\/p>\n<p>As for economic growth for Florida out of the trip, Putnam said a  deal is pending that could allow Florida blueberries to be sold in  Panama and to increase the sale of strawberries from the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/jacksonville\/blog\/latin\/2014\/01\/panama-challenging-florida-as-gateway.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more from the Jacksonville Business Journal here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great graphic.\u00a0 Google Earth always puts things in a true perspective and it is obvious why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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