According to Rodrigo Castro, an official from Empresa Portuaria Nacional in San Juan del Sur, this project aims to diversify services and will favor a much faster attention to tourists and embarking and disembarking.

Castro explained that the works include five buildings, recreational areas, shops, a craft market, as well as improvements to the transport of tourists arriving on cruise ships. It is expected that the work, to be funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, will be carried out within 14 to 16 months.

"... docking capacity will increase, with the number of small vessels operating at the same time bringing passengers from the cruise ships ashore going from one to four", reported Press-latina.cu.

Source: prensa-latina.cu

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