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Maritime trade is the main channel through which goods enter Panama and a key component of the country’s logistics platform. This study aimed to analyze the evolution of the CIF value of maritime imports by port of discharge between 2005 and 2023, focusing on concentration, variability, and temporal change within the national port system. A quantitative, non-experimental, longitudinal design was used based on official data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), drawn from the Foreign Trade Yearbook. Fifteen maritime ports were examined using descriptive statistics, coefficients of variation, absolute growth analysis, boxplots, and time-series graphs. The findings reveal a strong concentration of CIF value in Manzanillo, Balboa, and Cristóbal, which also showed the highest interannual variability. Manzanillo recorded the largest absolute growth over the study period, followed by Balboa, whereas Bahía Las Minas displayed a sustained decline.
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