The company Panamerican Seaway announced at the beginning of the year that that the ferry would start functioning in May making its 12-hour journey which would link the port of Colon with the terminal of Cartagena.
The project aroused great expectations, but never materialized.
Now it being is reported that "Aventura 2000, the agency that would be responsible for the operation in Panama, said the project has been canceled until further notice and it is not known if it will ever come to fruition."
A U.S. company announces a $3.5 million investment in a plant in Chinandega to manufacture parts of hulls for catamarans.
The company Mar y Sol, founded on U.S. capital, will invest $3.5 million in a plant manufacturing catamaran parts and accessories for shipment to the United States, where ships will be assembled and sent to clients in the Southern Caribbean, and in the long term, the total investment could be $20 million between 2012 and 2013, said company’s President, Domingo Bernardo.
Grupo Calvo and Corporación Salvadoreña de Inversiones are discussing the installation of a shipyard in the Pacific port of La Union, El Salvador.
The infrastructure, which would allow boats be kept dry in order to be cleaned, repaired or have their keels scraped etc, could be constructed in less than five years through a public private partnership deal.
Dutch shipbuilder Damen has expressed its interest in erecting a shipyard in Salvadoran port La Unión.
Eddie Roberto González is the director of local company "Multinaviera del Pacífico". They offered the port to the Dutch company, "to transform it in the largest shipyard of the pacific coast, developing all the extra port activities", said González.
The Maritime Authority decided to invite bids for the dockyard concession currently operated by Braswell Shipyard.
Roberto Linares, from the Maritime Authority stated that, with the public bidding process, every interested company will have a chance to participate.
Braswell Shipyard, the current operator, had requested to "remain on the Pacific coastline of the Panama Canal for 20 additional years, committing to $40 million in investments", reports Prensa.com.
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