Our Services

Mercansa's business is engaged in the maritime service industry and our concept stands for reliability, customer loyalty, tailored to commercialize and distribute all type of supplies and marine services for the shipping industry, including but not limited to: barges, fishing vessels, tankers, cruise ships, yachts, ferries, tugs, boats etc. Mercansa's ship supply services is to offer all shipping trade, ship owners and/or ship managers destined to or transiting Central American waters, the supply of industrial products, provisions, stores, spares and miscellaneous items required for each type of trade.

Mercansa Group consisits of the followiing companies:

Mercantile Shipstores S.A (MERCANSA):  Mercansa Panama is a ship chandler located in the Panama Canal, with head offices in Panama City, Republic of Panama and an infrastucture of three warehouses located in the Colon Free Zone, France Field having high quality stock items for all depatments such as Deck, Cabin, Engine, Safety, Provisions & Bonded Stores making us the most complete ship chandler in the Panama Canal. Our sister company and safety division Ocean Safety, a safety equipment provider, spare parts and technical stores in the Panama Canal, has exclusive representation of marine brands such as Amerex, D. Koronakis, Nalfleet, Fujikura, Toyo, Mcmurdo, DBC, Stearns, Switlik Parachutes, Hammar, Hansson Pyrotech and life raft equipments such as Drager Safety, DSB, Mitsubishi and Zodiac certified by high certification society such as ISSA, DNV, GL, Lloyd's, ABS, Solas and Shipserv.

Mercantile Shipstores- Mercansa Panama, is a reliable shipchandler committed to provide quality products at competitive prices to our customers through effective purchasing, inventory management, CRM, and JIT logistics for us to quantify our quality service control in order to assure brand loyalty and becoming your one-stop supplier. Mercantile Shipstores counts with a long-term membership of ISSA, Panama Maritime Chamber and Shipserv.   

We also offer an innovative service for the maritime clients such as Duty Free Express® by Mercansa, it is a line that offers shipping crews the opportunity to purchase personal goods from our duty free electronic catalog including some of the best quality products you could ever imagine.

Mercantile Shipstores Dominicana S.A:  Commercially known as Mercansa Dominicana, is engaged as a safety equipment provider and general ship supplies company in the Caribbean market. In our branch in Dominican Republic, we count with the stock of departments such as Safety, Deck, Cabin and Engine Stores. We are exclusive representative of major marine brands such as Jotun Marine Paints, Marichem Marigases, CometMcmurdo, D. Koronakis and as a liferaft marine station, we are the only authorized company in the Caribbean to inspect and serve Viking Safety Equipment, RFD Beaufort, DSB and certified as class A from classification societies such as DNV and GL.