APM Terminals Expresses Interest in Salvadoran Ports

The combined concession of the La Unión and Acajutla ports is said to interest the Dutch company.

Monday, September 6, 2010

"El Salvador is not a very big country, these ports are not very big either. As such I think it makes sense for them to managed under one administration in order to make them more efficient," APM Terminals' Latin America manager, Henrik Pedersen, told BNamericas.

Within the existing legislation, the port concessions cannot be granted to a private operator. Currently the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is carrying out a feasibility study of the potential concession.

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