Your business briefs section is always enlightening and to the point. One item you mentioned is Evergreen´s shifting over 120 ships from the Panama registry to those of Europe.

The Europeans' harassment of Panama´s shipping registry bore results: first they accuse us of being bad (a flag-state, as if that were something bad), then they attack our security standards (as if European ships didn´t sink), then they attack our personnel (picking on a few guys working with no licenses as if there weren´t millions of illegal aliens working in Europe), and finally harassing our Panama registry vessels with countless inspections and repeated sanctions, getting what they wanted from the very beginning: to take ship registry business from the Republic of Panama!

Then our government officials go and defend Evergreen´s decision, saying it´s a sovereign business decision, not political.

If we remain as weak as that, we will soon lose every business sector in which this country ever succeded to the Europeans. Panama government officials, their pockets full of money, are not going to miss it when that happens.

When will we have government officials who care about and defend Panama´s economic interests? God please help us!

Concerned citizen

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