Cigarista compared the ship register to the bankruptcy of Blockbuster

Director of Merchant Navy of the Maritime Administration of Panama (AMP), Rafael Cigarruista, turned on the red lights again amid the crisis Panama’s shipping registry is going through.

He even rejected the leadership Panama in the ship register, noting that this goal was “accidentally” achieved 20 years ago. But the official did not take any responsibility, and even less said what kind of solutions he sought during his four years in office.

Cigarruista’s statements appear in parallel with the continuing scandals irregularities in direct contracts and issuing of shipping licenses, where the listed friends are close to the administrator of the subject, Noriel Arauz.

Cigarruista had to admit during a radio interview that the ship registry or ship registration service has a structural competitiveness problem that has left the country behind the competition, and what’s worse, she stated that Panama as a nation has no maritime strategy.

However, he did not admit that during his four years in office he failed to implement simple programs such as electronic signatures and digitalization of documents. He only said it was a business model problem.

“You have to reconsider the business model, because with Panamanian legislation I will not go to Japan, Korea or Greece doing things our way. We must have the ability to adapt as a service provider. In fact, providers are adapting to demand,” he said. Cigarette player compared to the Panamanian Shipping Register with the case of the disappearance of Blockbuster and the rise of sNetflix service.

“If we don’t adapt, what will happen? We stay like Blockbuster and Netflix“, he repeated Cigarette. Director’s statement merchant navies is happening amid the fact that Panama is included in the gray list of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding and a drop in ship registrations that has the country very close to losing its leadership in the world.

Cigarruista ran his red lights once more, trying to take away importance to which Panama lose the lead in the ships under the flags. He said that Panama became the first country with the most plumes in life by accident, and not because it was planned.

For Cigarette player the decline of the panama registry it’s a business model problem that we have to deal with as a society. “If we want to continue to be a service provider to the world, we need to improve as a service platform. The problem is that the state As an entity, he doesn’t understand where we compete internationally,” Cigarruista commented without explaining what was done in his four years in office.

However, the official did not directly rule it out when his term in AMP ends Look for a job again in the Panamanian competition, which is the Liberian registry.” I believe that experts have the opportunity to develop their profession where we think is best for us. I don’t want to leave my country, that’s why I came back But these are Government negotiations. You are here for a while I don’t know. I don’t know what will happen to mewhat I can say is that I am here until the last day,” said Cigarruista in the past, already under scrutiny for mismanagement and his ties to other rival countries.

With this AMP does not stop going from scandal to scandal, going through the shipping contract, lawsuits before the Court due to falsified recordsmonopoly on sending fuel to cruise ships in favor of a friendly company, flagging of Iranian ships sanctioned by NOWlist of warnings for non-compliance with maritime safety standards and others.