Colon´s Free Zone
The Zona Libre of Colon is the most important Free Trade Zone in the region, it supplies every market from Latin America of products coming from Hong Kong, USA and Japan.
It holds importation, exportation, warehousing, assembling and logistic services. It generates 15 thousand permanent jobs and 6 thousand freelance jobs. Zona Libre is located south-east from Colon city. With 240 hectare of extension is the biggest and most lucrative free trade zone of the continent.
In the past year 25 multinational companies have established in the Zona Libre, taking advantage of its fiscal benefits and strategic location, which allows it to work with the Panama Canal, two ports, the Panamanian Railway (that goes from the Atlantic to the Pacific) and the Panama-Colon highway.