Dario Gamez, manager of the state National Port Company (ENP in Spanish), said the company will soon be inviting bids for the purchase of equipment for modernization of the dock 5 or the bulk dock at Puerto Cortes.

"We shall begin the restoration of the dock number five, we will put out to tender a purchase for new equipment, loaders, sealing head, possibly a forklift to improve the parts that are a bit shabby and depending on the economics, we will try to improve most of the equipment at the docks," Gamez said to Laprensa.hn.

"We have been approved a loan of $90 million and we are also waiting for a response from the Central Bank, to give us the same amount, and there is a work of the concession with a local bank for a bulk pier, but we yet have to study conditions of the contract," he added.

Source: laprensahn.com

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