Global Commerce Quotes

“Going forward, Panama should expand on the canal business in new ways. That means not only widening the physical canal, but investing more broadly in global logistics and supply chains. So Panamanian leadership should ask, how can we extract more value from the canal by adding more value to it. Or how can we create or plug into new platforms which facilitate global trade.

As a citizen of Panama, I'd like to see this happen.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“If the global supply chains are too fragmented, they're more vulnerable to shock. And that presents a threat to businesses everywhere. And when businesses everywhere suffer, people everywhere suffer.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth