On Tuesday, Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader will embark on an official trip to Panama, where he is set to take center stage at the 2024 World Free Zones Congress. Scheduled to run across May 12 and 13, the global gathering will feature Abinader as the event’s keynote speaker, with a core mission to position the Caribbean nation as a premier investment hub for global companies eyeing expansion in free zone operations, advanced logistics, and high-value manufacturing.
Beyond his keynote address, Abinader has planned a full schedule of targeted engagements with top international corporate executives and leading figures from Panama’s local business community. These one-on-one and group meetings are designed to highlight the Dominican Republic’s competitive advantages in specialized free trade zone sectors, from favorable regulatory frameworks to strategic geographic positioning, and drum up new foreign capital commitments for the country.
This investment outreach forms a central plank of the Abinader administration’s broader economic strategy, which aims to steadily boost foreign direct investment inflows and cement the Dominican Republic’s standing as one of the most dynamic and fast-growing economies in Latin America.
Abinader will also hold a formal bilateral meeting with his Panamanian counterpart, President José Raúl Mulino, to discuss bilateral relations and potential cross-border economic cooperation between the two nations. He will be joined on the trip by a high-level official delegation including Eduardo Sanz Lovatón, Dominican Minister of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, Biviana Riveiro, and Dominican Ambassador to Panama Roberto Salcedo.