March 2nd, 2012:

Lack of qualified personnel affects maritime industry

Mar 2nd, 2012
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The maritime industry faces great challenges and one is the lack of trained personnel to fill existing jobs and those generated by the Panama Canal expansion and the construction and upgrading of ports.

“Right now the mega projects such as mining, building the subway line and the Canal expansion have absorbed the low skilled labor that we have and this is a problem for the development of all businesses in the sector,” said Javier Bru, [...]

Central American countries arrange maritime search and rescue system

Mar 2nd, 2012
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Recognizing the need to coordinate and implement a Central American maritime search and rescue system under the International Maritime Organization (IMO), representatives from seven countries met in Panama on February 8 and 9 to participate in the workshop “Introduction to the SAR Convention.”

Currently, Honduras is the only country of Central America that is a signatory to the SAR Convention, while Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama so far have not ratified [...]