Daily Archives: March 2, 2013

Colonel Requests Investigation into Omar Torrijos Death

March 2, 2013
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Colonel Requests Investigation into Omar Torrijos Death

Retired Panamanian colonel Roberto Díaz Herrera has asked the Public Ministry to investigate the 1981 death of General Omar Torrijos. He maintains that a CIA assassination plot was behind the plane crash that killed the the general, an operation called “Falcon in Flight”.  In 1983, the inquiry into the accident concluded that the plane “had no mechanical…

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Maersk to Switch Route from Panama to Suez

March 2, 2013
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Maersk to Switch Route from Panama to Suez

As of April, Denmark’s Maersk line, the world’s largest container carrier, will use the Suez Canal instead of the Panama Canal to route ships from East Asia to the US East Coast ports of Savannah, Charleston and Miami. The new TP-7 FE-USEC plan will use eleven 6,000-7,000 TEU ships and stop at Ningbo, Shanghai, Shenzhen-Yantian, Hong…

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