The Maritime Industrial Park of Panama S.A. (PIMPSA) is a private company registered in Panama and previous concessionaire of the area of the former Rodman naval base.
PSA Panama, in the process of investment in the logistics sector of Panama, identified that in the west bank of the Canal there is a high demand for capacity to serve incoming ships. Therefore, PSA offered to PIMPSA to lease Polygon 4 for the construction and operation of a container terminal. This agreement was agreed with Contract Law No. 36 signed on June 19, 2008, between the Panama Maritime Authority and PSA Panama. The Contract Law was made official with the publication of the Official Gazette No. 26,066 of June 20, 2008.
In 2013, PSA Panama decided to start the port expansion process for which it was necessary to increase the concession area, and request a new Law Contract. As a concessionaire of the Rodman area, PIMPSA rescinded the concession it had on some of the polygons, which they returned to the control of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, who transferred them to the AMP for it to sign and grant the concession area in favor of PSA Panama.
After the government approvals of the permits required for the PSA concession, between March and April 2015, the lawyer and politician Miguel Antonio Bernal filed two criminal complaints against PIMPSA
On July 19, 2017, lawyers Cochez and Martínez filed a complaint with the Attorney General of the Criminal Office, requesting an investigation into the process of awarding the previous and current concession of the Rodman area. The accusations include misconduct and abuse of authority by the Public Administration and questioned a supposed association between PIMPSA, Serviamerica and PSA to self-assign a concession agreement.