There certainly have been some improvements made in Panama's air transportation system over the past few years and more is underway, including new airports in Colon and another in a central province according to President Martinelli. The president was recently at the airport where he made some predictions recorded in the Capitol Financiero online paper.
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The project includes the construction of 12 boarding gates
A call to redouble efforts to keep Panama as the country that offers the best airport in Central America, President Ricardo Martinelli made during the delivery of the order for the construction of the North Pier Tocumen International Airport, This marks the beginning of the second phase of the Master Development Plan of the Air Terminal.
"Not only begin construction of phase two, but now we must think also to develop phase three and four from the South Pier," the president announced that in next year's budget includs a provision for construction of two airports, one in Columbus and one in central provinces.
"This airport terminal is already the best airport in Central America, but further thinking big to become a true transit center for excellence" he said.
He also urged the authorities, who administer the Tocumen airport-to streamline the purchase of land adjacent to the Terminal to build an additional track, which would increase the number of flights required to reach the hub of Panama.
In the same vein, the President invited the representatives of COPA to include in their travel destinations to Europe direct to Rome in Italy.
The order to proceed, supplied by the company president AeroTocumen Martinelli, contemplates an investment of $ 70 million and the construction of 12 new doors for loading and unloading, which prepares the Air Terminal to increase its capacity by 50%.
Accompanying the president-in this act, the vice president Juan Carlos Varela, the chairman of the Board of Tocumen SA and Deputy Economy Minister Frank de Lima, the general manager of Tocumen SA, Rafael Flores, general manager and the Consortium Aerotocumen, Justo Arosemena, in addition to government officials and diplomatic corps accredited in Panama.
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