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To be able to ship cargo throughout the region, Central American business leaders are exploring options for moving goods using alternative methods, such as shipping.
Representatives from the Costa Rican government and the union of exporters met to address the issue of blockades in Nicaragua and the logistical drawbacks that they have caused, since Costa Rica transports by land about five thousand containers to the other Central American countries every month. As a result of this meeting, both parties concluded that the most viable option is to use maritime transport.
Authorities at the Guatemalan port terminal announced that they have solved the container congestion problem reported weeks ago, and have started working on a reengineering process.
Empresa Portuaria Nacional Santo Tomás de Castilla (Empornac) reported that after implementing a series of actions of a logistical nature, they have managed to solve the problem of container saturation in that area, and their operations remain stable.
Only days after two shipping companies announced the partial suspension of their operations in Puerto Santo Tomás, authorities at the terminal reported that 90% of the Salvadoran cargo has been lost.
The president of Empresa Portuaria Santo Tomas de Castilla (Empornac), Bayron Monterrosa, explained that they have lost almost all of the cargo from El Salvador, which represented 20% of the port terminal's operations.
Due to lack of investment in machinery and equipment in recent years and slow loading and unloading of vessels, the shipping company Maersk Line is to partially suspend its operations in the Guatemalan port terminal.
Panama Ports Company has stated that due to the unfavorable trend registered by the national maritime industry, the company is carrying out organizational changes in order to continue operating.
Guatemalan exporters and authorities at Puerto Santo Tomas de Castilla are working together to find solutions to the congestion affecting the port terminal.
The Department of Competitiveness at the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) and representatives of the port terminal started holding meetings last week to develop a road map, which will focus on improving traceability of cargo and the clearance of merchandise.
In 2017, 6 million tons of natural gas passed through the interoceanic route, and by 2020 this figure could rise to 30 million tons.
Explained by an increase in supply in the US deposits and of reserves in Australia, the Panama Canal Authority estimates that in the next three years natural gas traffic could grow fivefold compared to the amount reported in 2017.
In 2017, ports in Guatemala recorded cargo movements of 27.9 million metric tons, exceeding the 26.4 million reported in 2016 by 5%.
According to figures from the National Port Commission, for the years 2016 and 2017, Puerto Santo Tomás de Castilla was the terminal that recorded the largest increase in cargo movement, with 9%, followed by Puerto Barrios with 6% and Puerto Quetzal with 4%.
In Guatemala, Santo Tomás de Castilla Port is putting out to tender the supply of 28 forklifts, 15 terminal-type truck heads, 9 platform trailers and 3 Reach Staker containers.
For the fiscal year ending September 2018, the authorities foresee that the cargo that will transit through the Canal will reach 431 million tons, 7% more than in the previous period.
According to the Panama Canal Authority, the main reasons for the predicted growth in cargo passing through its facilities are the improvement registered in international prices of raw materials and the increase in demand from emerging economies.
Due to a recovery of customers and the start-up of a new route, the port terminal in Guatemala expects to mobilize 320,000 containers this year, 8% more than in 2017.
Starting in May, the Santo Tomás de Castilla National Port Company (Empornac) will have a new logistics route that will connect the Guatemalan port with the Mexican terminal of Puerto Morelos, in the state of Quintana Roo.
During Easter Week 93 thousand tourists travelled by sea through different parts of the country, which represents an increase of 6% compared to the same period in 2017.
The Maritime Authority of Panama reported that from Thursday, March 29 to Sunday, April 1 of this year, 93,480 passengers were transported by sea, in 6,461 trips.This exceeds the 88,594 passengers reported in the same period in 2017.
A $130 million loan is being negotiated with the BCIE to begin, at the end of the year, improvement works at the port of Corinto.
Representatives from the National Port Company (EPN) explained to Elnuevodiario.com.ni that in addition to the terminal's modernization plan, which would "... double the arrival of cargo ships ... an investment of approximately $70 million will be made in modernizing the port, only in what corresponds to equipment, and that the project will take about two years."
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