PANAMA PORTS Creating an Atmosphere that Celebrates Teamwork The Background Panama Ports Company (PPC) is a member of Hutchison Port Holdings, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of the firm Hutchison Whampoa Limited, the world’s leading maritime port opera- tor with interests in 51 ports in 25 countries around the world. It is a private company, but the Panamanian government owns a 10 percent share of the company. PPC operates three facilities in Pana- ma: the Port of Cristobal and Cristobal Cruise Terminal on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Panamanian isthmus, and the Port of Balboa on the Pacific side. The operations are huge. Each week, some 6000 railcar containers are han- dled by mammoth cranes that line the ports--30 containers per hour per crane. Worker

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