A Ministry of Logistics for Panama

The business sector is proposing the creation of a government entity focusing on the long term development of logistics activities in the country.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Adopting logistics as a matter of state and implementing a long term national logistics strategy that takes into account all of the productive sectors involved is the proposal of the business sector to the incoming government.

"Severo Sousa, president-elect of the Logistics Business Council (Coel) indicated that one of their main challenges is to get the new government to adopt or assimilate logistics as a matter of state and not just to focus on the maritime part of it, but as a conglomerate of sectors that are related to the activity."It remains to be seen how they can make some kind of 20 year plan to, which spans the periods of several governments," he said.

"Daniel Isaza, the outgoing president of Coel, recommended the establishment of a secretariat or ministry of Transport and Logistics, which would bring together all the sectors of the logistics conglomerate in the country."

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