Short Sea Shipping in Central America

A feasibility study indicates that the region has economic and port potential to develop a system of short sea shipping.  

Monday, November 11, 2013

After evaluating 49 ports with international traffic in the region, a feasibility study prepared by the Mesoamerica Project concluded that no large investments in access infrastructure are needed in order for ports to boost regional shipping.

"... Neither will it require the additional investment that some ports have planned, according to their overall traffic projections," the statement added.

The study states that the Pacific Ocean is the area with the greatest potential to execute the project, "with a matrix which focuses on maritime cargo in the ports of Quetzal in Guatemala, Acajutla in El Salvador, Corinto in Nicaragua and Caldera in Costa Rica", reported Prensalibre.com.

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