Since the beginning of the week at least 500 cargo trucks from Central American countries have been unable to get around a blockade in the department of Carazo.
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, 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%.
The Municipality of Villa Nueva is calling on companies who are interested in the concession, for a period of 25 years, of the first Municipal Line of the Public Air Transport Service by Cable Car.
The Latin American Development Bank is calling for expressions of interest to carry out a feasibility study on the public transport system in the center of Panama City.
A tender is being launched for field works for the validation of the study of "Road interconnection and urban rail passenger transport north-south axis in Guatemala City."
The air transport system will have 288 gondolas, 10 stations and will have to carry least 5,500 to 6,000 passengers per hour.
The Municipality of Guatemala has endorsed the project to grant in concession the construction, administration and operation of the "Aerometro" cable system, Phase I.
In 2016 the Central American countries imported $1.15 billion in freight vehicles, 7% more than in the previous year.
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Nine consortiums from China, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Brazil and Portugal want to be prequalified to design and build Line 3, which has $2.6 billion in financing.
The Municipality of Guatemala claims to have the permits to use the airspace in streets of the capital and Mixco, and needs an endorsement from the CIV before the route to be used can be decided.
Although last November it was indicated that at the end of that monththe specifications wouldbepublishedto grant in concession the construction and operation of the cable car or aerometer, some procedures and permits have yet to be completed in order to proceed with the tender process.
In addition to the usual problems of crime facing cargo carriers in the Northern Triangle, the union has denounced an increase in robberies on Costa Rican roads.
Inequality and lack of coordination in security measures that are implemented in each of the Central American countries is preventing better results from being achieved in combating robbery of freight trucks.
While pressure grows in Guatemala for the contract with APM Terminals to be annulled, the US company American Ports has expressed interest in operating the port.
Following opposition on the part of Congress to the possibility of approving a bill put forward by the executive branch proposing the granting of a direct concession to APM Terminals, now the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGC) has recommended declaring the contract void and starting a new process.
Volaris Costa Rica has announced that its company Fly Aviation has received an air operator certificate from the Civil Aviation authority and will start flying from December 1.
The airline expects to operate between 18 and 22 aircraft in the first three years, starting with flights from Costa Rica to other countries in the region.
The mania for regulatory bureaucracy which feeds its own existence is taking away flexibility in the use of resources in the economy, slowing development.
EDITORIAL
It will be impossible for Central Americans to make progress if every new business activity has to be authorized by a public official.In the region the practice is not that you can do anything that is not forbidden, but rather the general culture indicates that you can only do what the State authorizes you to do.
The time it takes to move goods between Managua and the customs offices of Guasaule will be reduced from 5 to 2 hours with the recent works on the 77 kilometer stretch of road between the two places.
With this new route carriers will be able to avoid going through the cities of Leon and Chinandega, which will generate savings not only in time but also in costs.It is estimated that a reduction will be achieved of"... four gallons per diesel per truck."
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