Starting with education and training of the workforce that will be required by the construction and operation of mega projects like the Moin Container Terminal (TCM by its initials in Spanish), there are a number of issues where the poorest province of Costa Rica has major deficiencies, but until now only a few advances have been made in the task of solving them.

Much of the work is still in initial stages of assessment by commissions where bureaucracy is a mountain that hinders decision-making and the implementation of solutions.

Elfinancierocr.com reports that "With $5.991 billion coming to their doors in the next five years, 2013 looks like a year in which several strategic investments will materialize. Several of these projects were announced years ago and some are pending authorizations or endorsements, but the province hopes that, this time, the projects are underway. Yet despite the proximity of the construction of megaprojects like the Moin Container Terminal (TCM), with a total value of $1 billion, the province has just begun work on a plan to take advantage of this infusion of dollars. "

Source: elfinancierocr.com

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