Monthly Archives: July 2019

July 5, 2019

Noriel Arauz, a naval architect, will be the new AMP Administrator and Minister of maritime affairs.  He will be accompanied by nautical engineer Samuel Ferreira as deputy administrator; and at the direction of merchant marine and head of the Ship Registry by nautical engineer Rafael Cigarruista. The Secretary general is lawyer Elvia Bustavino.

Hubel Marine’s managing director Erik A. de Koning had a first meeting with the newly appointed Minister, Sub-Administrator , director general and General secretary. 

Many topics were discussed like market conditions, objectives for improvement etc. 

The new administrator and his team are realizing the need to transform the Ship Registry and will do their outmost in order  to maintain a competitive and number 1 Ship Registry.

Erik A. de Koning next to Noriel Arauz , Samuel Ferreira and Elvia Bustavino.

Panama July 1st, 2019

The Social democrat Laurentino Cortizo, who won last May the presidential election in a close race, was last July 1st duly inaugurated for a single five-year term as head of state of a nation famed for its canal but also for its largest Ship Registry.

He announced that one of the next months priorities would be the constitutional reforms proposals and the project of a new law to ensure clear rules and transparency around public contracts.

Cortizo has promised to improve the education system, reform the state to make institutions more transparent, develop the economy and fight poverty and inequality.

The inauguration was being attended by the managing director, Erik A. de Koning of Hubel Marine B.V.

Erik A. de Koning with Nito Cortizo