Railroad Overview

Panama Canal Railway Company is the only railway operator in the country. This railway has two terminals to carry out its operations, one on the Pacific side and the other on the Atlantic. The Pacific terminal is connected to the port terminal of Balboa, allowing the efficient loading and unloading of containers destined for the terminals of Cristóbal, MIT, and Colon Container Terminal on the Atlantic side. The Cristóbal terminal allows the loading and unloading (not of passengers) of containers with an in-port service. The Atlantic terminal of the Panama Canal Railway Company is located next to the MIT Logistics Park, 500 meters from the Port of Manzanillo and 2,000 meters from the port of CCT.

On average, 2,000 containers are transported daily in both directions, reaching an annual volume of approximately 650,000 units. The journey covers around 76 kilometers and takes about 1 hour and 15 to 30 minutes between both terminals, with an average of 10 daily trips in each direction depending on demand, using double-stack trains. The maximum service handling capacity has been estimated at 2,000,000 containers per year.