Panama counts with two channels: the aquatic, which initiated operations in 1914 and the railroad, which is administered and operated by the Panama Canal Railway Company, subsidiary of Kansas City Southern Industries and Mijack Products; it includes the use of high speed trains to cover a 54 miles route in approximately one hour time. The services offered by the railroad include a greastest loading movement as an attractive for exporters and importers. This is a complement and not a competitor of the seaway.

The rebuilding of the system included the replacement of all railway lines, wagons and rail locomotives and standard capacity equipment. The route used by the new railroad is basically the same used by the former one.

The purpose for the railroad is to turn Panama into a modern transhipment center, consisting in two big port complexes: one in the Atlantic area and the other one in the Pacific area and, as well, to create the pertinent mechanisms for the ports and the Canal to work as a whole.

The company included the construction of additional branches to give service to the Colon Free Zone, Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT), Colon Container Terminal (CCT) at the Atlantic sector and Balboa port at the Pacific sector.