Documents required to ship vehicle out of Panama:
		1.  Copy of Bill of Lading indicating the vessel, container number, and seal.  All these are provided to you by your shipping company.
		2.  Vehicle Inspection Document provided by the Secretaria General.  Also make copies
		3.  New Vehicle permit with date of departure from the country added.  Provided by the Aduana Office.  Also make copies.
		4.  Vehicle title and passport of vehicle owner and copies of each
	PROCEDURE
	Visit Order	Location	Address	Phone	Copies Needed	Originals Needed	$ Paid
	1	Policia National Direccion de Investigacion Judicial (DIJ)	1299 Zona 1 (Corner of Avenida Asconio Arosemena and Avenida 3 Norte) (Next to Mercado de Abastos on the SE side)	507-512-2222	Passport, Vehicle Title and Vehicle Permit received when entering the country	None	0
		Notes:  This is where you get your vehicle inspected.  Park behind building, looks shady but is safe.  Arrive between 8-12PM.  They officers may try to turn you away, asking that you come back tomorrow.  This is just to try to get a bribe from you, just be kindly persistent explaining your situation or ask lots of questions abouot the process and they will cave and help you.  They may also come up with phony excuses/errors on your permit from the border sending you to the aduana office to fix them when really again they are fishing for a bribe.  For us they said the VIN number (chasis No. on the permit) was printed on the wrong line.  They claim that it should have been on the motor number line which was dotted out by the agents at the border.  Also they claimed that the make of our car, VLK needed to be spelled out.  Now you can do one of four things:  Pay they guy $20 or something, challenge the official and if he is persistent ask for his supervisor, or you can go to the aduana office and have the permit fixed as per instruction (aduana seems pretty straight forward and fast) or when you enter the country ensure the customs agent adds the motor number and spells things out.  But regardless of what your permit looks like from the border, I am almost convinced that the inspector will find something wrong
		in attempt to get a bribe from you.  We recommend you challenge them and are persistent without getting irrate or visibly angry.  They usually will cave and it seems like the supervisor would be reasonable if the charges really are made up. Regardless of what time you go there, the office waits until 2:00PM to walk over to the Secretaria General's office across the street with all their paperwork from the whole day all at once.  You must accompany this person from the DIJ office to the Secretaria General to finish your paperwork.  So, if you need your paperwork faster, ask to take it across the street yourself.  They probably allow it, you just have to ask.
	2	Secretaria General	Across the street (Avenida Asconio Aroemena) from DIJ Office		Passport, Vehicle Title and Vehicle Permit received when entering the country	Passport and Title	0
		Notes:  This office gives you the official vehicle inspection document you will need at the customs office (aduana) and at the port.  This office seems very slow, expect to be there a few hours.  You give a form of ID to the booth coming into the building and they give you a visitor's badge.  Then you wait in the waiting room until the Secretaria General calls you back to their office.  Here you present your papers, copies and originals and fill out a form.  Then you go back to the waiting room while they draft the official vehicle inspection document, releasing your vehicle to leave the country.  They will call you back once again into the office to double check the document for errors and if all checks out you may take it and go.
	3	Shipping Office of Choice					0
		Notes:  Obtain 4 copies of the draft Bill of Lading for your shipment, you will need it at Customs and the Port (3 copies may work also as it seemed we had an extra).  Our company added a stamp on each of the copies.
	4	Autoridad National de Aduanas	Curundu , Edificio 1009, Apdo 7304, Zona 5	507-506-6202                  507-506-6202                    507-506-6209	Copy Bill of Lading, Vehicle Inspection from Sectretaria General	Passport, Vehicle Inspection, Permit from Border	0
		Notes:  Directions - close to police station.  Go around the market on Via La Amistad and you will see the Aduana on your left on this road, look for a chain linked fence with lots of cars parked behind it.  To enter Aduana you must drive around to the other side, so make the first left you can and backtrack on the one way street back the direction you just came from.  You will see the Aduana building on your left.  Process was very easy and fast for us.  They keep the original permit and give you a new one for exiting the country with an exit date.  Make sure you have a copy of the Entry Permit from the border, you will need it at the Port.  They will also stamp the passport of the driver who received the stamp upon entry into Panama.  That's it.
	5	Balboa Port	Off Avenida Arnulfo Arias, north of intersection with Avenida Roosevelt	507-207-5191        Maricruz Aguilar	Copy Bill of Lading (3), Vehicle Inspection (2), passort (2), title (2), Permit of entry (2), Permit of exit (2-from aduana)	Vehicle Inspection, Permit of Exit from Aduana, Title, Passport	117
		Notes:  Drive into the port past the security gate, straight ahead you will see a small house with cashier looking windows on two sides.  There will be lots of cars and trucks parked around, park there and go around the side of the building to the 3rd from last window on the side.  It is poorly labled but it might say somewhere Aduana Something.  This is the window the truck drivers go to with their large pink liquidation papers.  By the way, you do not need a pink liquidation paper.  Here they will ask for all kinds of copies and will stamp one of the copies of the Bill of Lading.  Then go to the Caja and pay for the port fees.  Hand the cashier your B/L.  We paid $117 to load into a 20 foot container.  Then we went around to one of the windows in the front of the house, 2nd from the left and show the B/L and receipt of payment to that person.  I'm not sure what this person does because a worker in a pickup came over and we followed him to the container within the port.  At the location we loaded the car, was an office for Aduana.  We walked in and handed him another slew of copies, whatever he requested along with the originals he requested.  He stapled a stack of documents (Original Exit Permit, Original Vehicle Inspection and two original drafts of the B/L).  He kept a similar stack with copies.  He came outside
		and observed the loading of the vehicle, checked the VIN number and then once the container was closed and sealed he handed us this stack of original documents and left.  We drove our own car to the container, drove up into the container, added our own lock to the contain (secondary to the official seal) and added our old tires all around the car for cushioning.  They two workers tied the car down pretty good as well.   TIPS: arrive 1 hour prior to your appointment to get stamp, pay and anything else that may come up.  If you have trouble or questions, Call Maricruz Aguilar who works in the little house of windows.  She will come out and help you (if she is still working there).