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Mr.
Alfonso Rodriguez, Director General of Ports and Maritime
Ancillary Industries.
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Panamanian ports represent a very good option for investments
due to advantages that characterize them; including:
· Facilities for loading and unloading.
· Storage, transshipment
· Consolidation
· Storage and distribution of loose cargo
· Renting, repairing, and storage of containers.
· Cargo Insurance
· Cleaning and repairing of containers.
· Port, financial, and cruise ships administration.
· Administration of container terminals and processing
zones.
· Letters of Credit, and expert's opinion of
cargo through draught.
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Panama
is on the path of becoming the main center of transshipment
of containers of Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically
in the area of North Coco Solo, which is experiencing
a sustainable and growing port development..
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LThe
General Directorate of Ports and Maritime Ancillary Industries,
is in charge of planning and coordinating the development plan of
the National Port System, as well as to manage, expand and maintain
ports and trade and ports installations of public use; it also has
the responsibility to supply navigation facilities and other services
required by vessels.
During the
last 10 years, the evolution of port activities has reached its
highest level in growth and development.
This rapid
expansion is projected with the privatization of the main port terminals,
as well as the construction of new terminals and has been reflected
in the number of docked vessels and the volume of container cargo
movements reached in the most recent years in the port complex,
made up by Manzanillo International Terminal, Colon Container Terminal
and Cristobal, with the highest movement in Latin America.
Panama
Ports System is conformed by eighteen (18) ports from which eleven
(11) are administered by the Panama Maritime Authority through the
General Directorate of Ports and Maritime Ancillary Industries.
These are mainly small ports that offered services to international
transport and to coastal traffic. The remaining seven (7) ports,
are managed and operated by private companies that develop their
activities under the supervision of this General Directorate, through
the captainship of the ports located in the Atlantic and Pacific
areas.
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ports has a particular physical characteristic and specific
installations to offer their users. When arranging or distributing
the ports according to the nature of their operations, these
are classified in three categories: |
| Specialized
Port: are characterized by
the specific nature of its activities, which are developed for
a specific zone and activities that derive from this. Within
this category are fruit , sugar, fish ports and petroleum terminals. |
| Port
Complexes: are classified within the national ports system,
for the type of services offered. These are in the Balboa Port,
located northeast of the entrance of the Panama Canal, between
8057" North Latitude, 78034" West Longitude and the
Cristobal Port located in the Atlantic region of the Panama
Canal at 9021" North Latitude and 79055" West Longitude. |
| Ports
for General Cargo: The
general cargo ports, make up 57% of the ports that conform the
National Ports System and are divided in two groups: foreign
trade and coastal traffic. |
Currently the port terminals of Balboa and
Cristobal are under the administration of Panama Ports Company,
member of the Hutchinson Port Holding (HPH) group. Likewise, new
ports have been built, that are under the operation and administration
of private companies, such as Evergreen with the Colon Container
Terminal (CCT), Petroterminales de Panama (PTP) administrator and
operator of the ports in Charco Azul, in Chiriqui and Chiriqui Grande,
in Bocas del Toro; Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) operated
by Stevedoring Services of America (SSA).
Panama
is on the path of becoming the main center for transshipment of
containers in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically the
ports in the area of North Coco Solo, which is experiencing a sustainable
and growing port development.
The maritime
development of North Coco Solo, an old naval base of the United
States Armed Forces in the Province of Colon, is due to the fact
that there is a complete infrastructure of transportation, interconnected
through ports, airports, railroad and highway, next to the Colon
Free Zone, the greatest commercial area of the Western Hemisphere,
where the main export and import companies are located, as well
as docks and ship operating offices.
| Panamanian
ports represent a very good option for investments due to advantages
that characterize them; including |
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Facilities
for loading and unloading. |
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Storage,
transshipment |
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Consolidation |
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Storage
and distribution of loose cargo |
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Renting,
repairing, and storage of containers. |
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Cargo
Insurance. |
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Cleaning
and repairing of containers. |
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Port,
financial, and cruise ships administration |
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Administration
of container terminals and processing zones. |
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Letters
of Credit, and expert's opinion of cargo through draught. |
Both
areas have been identified as possible sites for port and industrial
development, as well as for transshipment of cargo. In Rodman, the
studies conducted consider the possibility of building a petroleum
refinery and in Farfan a new cargo terminal. http://www.eclac.cl/transporte/perfil/stataec.asp
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