Mossack Fonseca: Panama Maritime Authority to Open New Offices in U.S.

The administrator of the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), Jorge Barakat, announced that in 2016 the AMP (sometimes referred to as SEGUMAR) will open an office in Los Angeles to serve the U.S. West Coast, and in 2017 they will move the SEGUMAR East Coast office from New York to Miami in order to provide better and more effective access to maritime policies and services linked to and developed from the Miami area market.

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