Construction. Over 160 exhibitors will be offering houses to attendees for four days in Atlapa.
For 2012 the construction industry expects to grow 22.64%, contributing about 217.7 million dollars to the GDP from construction.
Business opportunities. Panama is located in the business center for excellence in the region, and that is why exhibitors from over 30 countries are participating in Expocomer, an event that they see as a gateway to promote their countries' economies.
A demonstration of how art is at the service of the most vulnerable populations, such as children, and how it is a uniting bridge between cultures, was the essence of Small World Abu Dhabi 2012, where Panama participated last Friday, March 16 at the luxurious Emirates Palace in the arab capital.
The presidents of two of the largest construction and project management companies of the world, the Director of Civil Works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Administrator of the Panama Canal, will be the key-note speakers at the "International Engineering and Infrastructure Congress -Panama Canal 2012."
Expocomer, the commercial showcase for Panama which this year celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, was inaugurated on Wednesday, March 21 at the Atlapa Convention Center. The keynote speaker was the President of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, who highlighted the Panamanian business integration processes and placed Panama as a reference for progress and development in Central America and the Caribbean.
