See also: Interview with Nilda Quijano, General Manager of Colon Free Zone ...más información (In Spanish)

Colon Free Zone

privileged location

Located in the Middle of the American Continent, at the entrante of the Panama Canal in the Panama Caribbean Sea, the Free Zone is Surrounded by four ports of containers, two cruise terminals ( Colon 2000 and Dock 6 Panama Ports), an internacional airport, in addition to a terrestrial and railroad transportation terminal. The ports of Manzanillo Internacional Terminal, Colon Ports Terminal, Colon Container Terminal (Evergreen) and Panama Ports Company ( Hutchison Whampoa) with a terminal in the Caribbean sector and another in the Pacific, constitute a complete modern Multimodal Logistic Center.

INFRAESTRUCTURe Y SERVICes

• Stock and cargo redistribution center
• More than 2500 companies destinied to exhibit, import, re-export, store, repack, assamble, transform design and create, among other activities, merchandise, products or raw material and the rest business effects.
• Modern showroom, business premises and wharehouse.
• High technology communications network.
• More than 25 international banks operating within the free zone.
• Security inside and in a surrounding area.
• Multinational cargo companies provide service in less than 24 hours.
• Closeness 3 Containers ports, railroad, terrestrial terminal and airport
• 2 Cruise ships terminals close to the area.

0 % TAXES, 100 % OpPORTUNITIES

The monetary adventages and fiscal benefits that The Colon Free Zone have offered to established entrepreneurs in the commercial area have been reasons why each year new companies have started operations, giving more opportunities to buyers to get more variety of products and services.

• Excepcional tax system, excemption for import, re-import and manufacture.
• The dollar as legal currency.
• Low cost in the rent of premises, land.
• Lease back system ( discount in the lease canon for the investment in the public utilities or services).
• Tutorage and protection of intellectual property rights.
• Automatized trade operations.

how to get established

To establish operations in Colon Free Zone, it is necessary:

• Be a legal entity
• To posses good banking and commercial references
• Have a public or private premises or to be represented by a direct user.
• Re- distribution of the 60 % of imported goods, hiring a minimum of 5 panamanian employees.