Port Calls in Panama

Our agents are compromised to coordinates all kind of port services you require in a timely manner: booking allocation for docking, loading and unloading cargo, passengers disembarking, crew disembarking, fumigation services, and all formalitites necessary for ships departure and arrival, specially in principal ports of Panama in Balboa and Cristobal. It is important to program tug service and pilots rapidly as soon as the vessel enters Panamanian waters to avoid delays in the operation side of the client and ensure a smooth port call while alongside.

In Panama, we have different types of Port Facilities in both side of the isthmus, Atlantic and Pacific Side, capable to provide services to all kind of vessels: containers vessels, bulk carriers, liquid and general cargo vessels as well as to passenger vessels in cruise terminals. Due to the high demand of cargo transportation through the Panama Canal, all these ports have capacity for any size of vessels with any depth of draft. Most of the port facilities provides their services nearby the Panama Canal Waters, making them a strategic point of easy access that can benefit all companies around the world that would require logistics services in any port from the Atlantic and Pacific Side prior to transit through the Panama Canal.

Communication through email, radio and phone regarding advisories and detailed information from the port is completely necessary to be shared to the captains with at least 4 days prior to arrival. To have our clients well informed of draft limitations, geographical area, tidal and weather forecast is some of the basic information to provide with due time. All related information regarding safety activities from the port and measurements taken for port protection has to be also detailed to the vessel with enough time in order to coordinate proper conditions of the vessels.

Our agents are knowledgeable in Guides to Port entry, International Maritime Regulations and Local Advisories in Panama, for best attention to our clients arriving to Panama for cargo operations.