The Colon Free Zone of Panama was created back in 1948 and is more than just a Free Trade Zone. It's a key foreign trade   logistic center as well located on 400 hectares near the entrance to the Panama Canal on the Atlantic side. 

Due to its importance the Colon Free Zone in Panama is considered the second largest free trade zone in the world and the first in the occidental hemisphere. The geographical position and access to 4 ports represent the Colon Free Zone as an important international port center. 

From the Colon Free Zone in Panama you can access the Manzanillo International Terminal, Colon Ports Terminal, Colon Container Terminal (Evergreen), Panama Ports Company (Autchison Wampoa) in the Cristobal Terminal and the Port of Balboa in the Pacific. 

The annual commercial transactions of the Colon Free Zone of Panama generate some 11 thousand million dollars in imports and re-exporting. Within the installation we find more than 2 thousand companies located that receive annually about 250 thousand visitors.  Investors and businessmen can find in the Colon Free Zone of Panama, the largest distribution and redistribution of cargo of the Americas. 

It also has modern exhibition halls, deposits and commercial branches in the Colon Free Zone of Panama.  From the Colon Free Zone of Panama 25 banks also operate where you can perform any commercial transaction.