About Us
Reliability, Expertise and Innovation at your service!
Independent consultants delivering reliable, knowledgeable and expert guidance as well as direct assistance on a wide range of port, maritime and logistics projects. Canal Experts & Consultants offers a highly experienced team, each member with many decades of know-how and involvement with many technical and commercial initiatives in an ever-changing industry. The expertise acquired by the team after many years of working with industry leaders developing projects for global organizations, equip them with practical experience in different types of environments, particularly shipping, port and logistics in the Caribbean and Latin American region.
The Canal Experts & Consultants´ team offers consulting work in an industry that has had a tremendous impact on how our lives evolve and, in some cases, how we are able to survive upheavals such as the COVID Pandemic. This health calamity left the world wholly dependent on the efficient and effective transport of good, particularly food and medicines. There is no doubt that the maritime industry is truly the epitome of globalization. However, this dependency on world trade also points to the risks involved and what measures we must take to always be a step ahead of the risks associated with the provision of critical products and services everywhere in the world. Some
say that the most significant technological advances in communication during the last few years were made because of the Pandemic, which of course, has also brought more changes to the way we do business and how fierce competition can be. Canal Experts & Consultants is very much aware of these changes and how important it is to be one step ahead of the competition –so, our services will always include a very perceptive understanding of how the client´s projects fit into the technical and commercial context of industry at the time.
Supply chains and logistics have existed since time immemorial, serving warring countries as well as enabling historic conquers all over the world. Today, shipping and ports play a fundamental role in facilitating global trade through extensive and very effective supply chains that make it possible to bring row materials from places thousands of kilometers away to production facilities and, then again, move finished products halfway across the world. This is what the shipping, port and logistics
industry is today, impressively competitive and always at the edge of technology. This is the industry in which Canal Experts & Consultants excel, providing valuable insights and honest advice and recommendations.
The Canal Experts & Consultants´ Team includes seasoned seafarers with the highest international ship command licences and over 30 years of experience as engineers and pilots in the Panama Canal, each –and because of this expertise, the Team offers consulting services on different Canal related issues, such as interpretation of Canal regulations, transit vessel requirements, tugboat assistance -- including dead tows and other floating equipment. Additionally, the team has provided consulting services to different port and logistics companies in areas that go from engineering evaluation and
designs to economic feasibility studies. The team has been involved in projects from the design and infrastructure planning stages, including bathymetry and navigational considerations, such as towboat and pilot training to ensure safety, security and compliance. Safety and Security risk analysis have also given the team a very good perspective of technological advances as well as cybersecurity considerations and other local and international legal issues. Of course, because of the team´s involvement with the Panama Canal, there is an intrinsic commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship –protection of the environment --in all port and logistics projects in
which Canal Experts & Consultants gets involved.