The Panama Ship Registry closed the first semester of 2020 with positive numbers, despite the world health and economic crisis due to the covid pandemic. 19. From January to June of this year, the registry of ships of Panama reported a total of 469 new flagged ships representing 13.6 million tons for the Panamanian fleet, according to figures from the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP). According to the entity, with this new figure Panama remains as “leader” in the sector. He also specified that this result is the product of “a coordinated work” of “a multidisciplinary team of professionals determined to overcome the proposed goals.” “This is essential and is key to maintaining our position and continuing with positive numbers,” said Rafael Cigarruista, general director of the Merchant Marine of the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP). According to the AMP, 34% of the ships that during these first months of the year took Panama as their flagship are new constructions. Of these, the majority (45%) are bulk cargo ships. Although the container ship, chemical / product tanker and pleasure yachts segments in national waters also have an important representation in this group, ships were registered with large ships and from different markets, such as Greek, Japanese, Korean and Italian. . Some of these new vessels with the Panamanian flag are: LPG tanker Buena Bandera from the Tabuchi Kaiun Co. company, the FJ Bianca from Fukujin, Kisen Co., MSC Gülsun from Mediterranean, Shipping Company, Wisteria Salute from Misuga Kaiun Co., and HMM Algeciras of Hyundai Merchant Marine. Regarding the cancellations of ships in the registry, there is optimism, since, compared to previous years during the same period, these have been reduced by 25%, according to the data of the maritime entity Panamanian.