Panama is a precious stone in Latin America. With a guaranteed and vigorous Financial Center (108 national and foreign banks), an offer of professional services of the developed world and a flexible legislation (the Corporation Law or the one of the Merchant Marine and Registering of Vessels; as well as the new Trust laws and of Private Interest Foundation and the one of Insurance, Reinsurance and Captive Insurance), the country has become in the operation office of important companies that operate in the globalized world and that, therefore, require a safe, but adaptable environment.

The legal security of the country, as well as the atmosphere of established public security, place the city of Panama as one of the most attractive Latin American capitals to make business.

Other of the economic attractions of Panama is the Colon Free Zone, the second biggest free zone in the world, where a little more than two thousand companies that re-export to all Latin America, operate.

The Panama Canal, where about 5% of all the world trade passes, is one of the most important economic engines of the country and of the hemisphere. The broadening of the interoceanic passage, with a foreseen investment of 5.200 million dollars, generates new business opportunities and dynamizes very diverse sectors. The Panama-Colon axis also has the interoceanic train.

The public and private investments (including those of the Canal) in the transportation, logistic and energy sectors add up to 35.000 million dollars, a guarantee of consolidation for an economy that grows an average of 6.5%.

Furthermore, Panama has one of the most versatile and complete aerial hubs of America with the local company, Copa, allied to Continental Airlines. The International Airport has been remodeled with an investment that has surpassed 70 million dollars.

Panama has become in one of the destinies preferred by tourists and investors. In the last years, thousands of North Americans, Venezuelans and Colombians have transferred their residence and many of their investments to Panama, attracted by the legal and fiscal incentives and by the beauty and tranquility of the country.

Two oceans, thousands of islands, an imposing central cordillera, natural life refugees, whale refuges and a passage of millions of birds in their migrations.

Panama is a special place where the affability of their people, the multiculturality and the tradition as hosts of a population of different origins, combine into a winning formula.

New buildings are transforming and modernizing the capital while the interior of the country lives an accelerated development, with millionaire tourist investments and a significant improvement of the services. Panama has passed from being the bridge of the Americas to one of the desired paradises of the hemisphere.