Ports, Rail Expansions Key To Growing Transshipments
Each day thousands of cargo containers cross almost 50 miles of the Isthmus of Panama. But they aren’t going through the famed Panama Canal.
In the past five years, traffic on a 47.6-mile railroad has jumped. It is a cooperative system between Panama Ports Co.—which operates primary container ports on both sides of the isthmus—and the Panama Canal Railroad Co.