The goal of our Blog is to provide individuals or businesses with information relating to logistics in Panama who can be useful if you are thinking of moving to Panama, Panama's export, import or use Panama to Panama as a distribution center for Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Thinking
relocatable or Moving to Panama? In recent years the real estate sector in Panama achieved an exponential growth due to the amount of construction projects that have been coming true. Places like: Paitilla, San Francisco and East Coast are attractive to many travelers that are in the city of Panama, the dynamics and Miami
appearance. Places like El Valle, Boquete and Cerro Punta, are a paradise apparatus those Baby Boomers and people looking for a quiet place with a cool climate to retire and rest. In recent months, it has detected a rise in beach projects with the construction of Villas, Resorts and Condominiums. Recommendations
If one of thousands of people in Panama found that "special place" or looking for work in the form of relocating or moving to Panama, there are some very important points
must take into consideration:
- Contact a logistics officer with a presence in your country and Panamá.Preferiblemente that the agent is accredited by the IATA (International Air Transport Association) Check
- objects and items you want to go. This is important because the price depends on weight and dimensions of the load.
- analyze if you want to send the cargo by air or sea. If you're carrying objects such as furniture and other heavy items, you should send the cargo by sea because the sea service is charged per cubic meter while the air service is charged by weight.
- sure to have immigration documents or pending listing with proper documentation as evidence. This will allow the exemption of some taxes.
- is important to ask the agency to include an insurance charge for the goods. For a few dollars more than their belongings will be insured in case of any accident or customs ports of origin or destination.
Thinking Import Export Panama or Panama?
Panama has the second largest Free Zone in the world. Colon Free Zone is an economic mainstay for the country and a major trading agent to trade in the region.
Some features of the Colon Free Zone are:
- has 1.200 hectares
- There are more than 2,600 registered companies
- has a
- Empire State Building offers an advantage to exporters and importers have access to
- 3 private ports
- container has a stable investment environment offers tax benefits
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Some of the tax benefits offered by the Colon Free Zone are:
- 0% tax on export earnings
- 0% of tariffs and quotas on the export and import
- 0% sales tax
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highly competitive costs - immigration facilities for foreign executives and Advantages
- Importer Buy in one place that has excellent range products and services, credit facilities
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Exporter Benefits
- From a place in the center of the Americas access to different world markets
- service agencies charged with international presence
International Transportation Panama With Channel, ports, airports, roads and rail, multimodal transport Panama is a reality. Some features of Panama are logistical:
- has 1 international airport located in Panama City has
- airports for domestic flights in each of the country's provinces do
- has an inter-oceanic canal which links the transit Atlantic Sea with the Pacific
- has 3 private management ports
- has 1 railroad that connects the province with the province of Colon in Panama to a better
- container transport has a road system which meets Inter-American Highway which links to Panama with the rest of the countries of Central
Recommendations
If an individual or company found in Panama, a provider of goods, a customer or
need your goods passing through Panama to be distributed to the region then there are some points you should consider:
- Contact an agent logistical presence in the country of origin and the country destino.Preferiblemente that the agent is accredited by the IATA (International Air Transport Association)
- Note that in Panama offers the service of re-labeling and packing within the Free Zone.
- Discuss whether to send the cargo by air or sea. If you're carrying objects such as furniture and other heavy items, you should send the cargo by sea because the sea service is charged per cubic meter while the air service is charged by weight. There
- LTL ground service from Panama to Central America where the transit time is similar to the shipping service but at a lower cost.
- Consult your freight forwarder customs restrictions and requirements of the goods being exported the matter.
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