Cruise companies need improvements in port areas reserved for passengers, cargo ships and vessel towing.
The director of Puerto Quetzal, Allan Marroquín, explained that the cruise industry, in relation to Puerto Quetzal, "... first of all, proposes having towing equipment that has greater capacity, because sometimes the weight of the ships coming in exceeds that which can be handled at the Port ".
Having dismissed all legal action, the usufruct of land awarded to TCB for the construction of a new container terminal at Puerto Quetzal will be reactivated.
Allan Marroquín, Comptroller of Empresa Portuaria Quetzal (EPQ), indicated that the processes that are pending should not extend beyond the February 2013. To date the contract has been "suspended by mutual agreement. To be reactivated just by an exchange of letters", said Marroquin.
In light of the conflict caused by workers in Puerto Quetzal, the government has suspended the contract for leasing the land for a new container terminal which had been awarded to TCB.
The controller of the port of Quetzal, at the close of the meeting with union representatives said, "We will not hand over the land nor give anything that provides continuity to the contract.
Guatemalan banks and investors will finance the Spanish company TCB for the construction of the new container terminal at Puerto Quetzal.
An article in Elperiodico.com.gt reports that "The Catalan company TCB is seeking financing from Guatemalans banks and investors to obtain the $120 million needed to build the new container terminal at Puerto Quetzal", said Allan Herberth Marroquin, Controller of the port of Quetzal (EPQ).