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Port La Unión Accredited to Operate

El Salvador received nautical charts covering the port and its surroundings, which will be certified by the National Registry.

Friday, April 16, 2010

©image: Puerto La Unión

These charts were supplied by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency of the United States. Once they are certified by the Registry they will be distributed internationally.

Guillermo López Suares, president of CEPA, the ports commission, told Laprensagrafica.com that these charts are “indispensable tools to open the port this year”.

Source: laprensagrafica.com

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El Salvador: Port La Unión is Inaugurated Amidst Controversy

June 2010

According to private operators, shipping companies will continue using port Acajutla, so the new port would only generate losses for the Salvadoran state.

The port, completed on January 2008, has been inoperative since then, because it lacks the necessary equipment, and because the government has not yet defined and approved a concession model for a private operator.

El Salvador To Take Up Again Port Concessions

June 2009

The new CEPA president will analyze proposed legislation for port concessions, which is now in the Legislature.

José Guillermo López Suárez, president of the Autonomous Port Executive Committee (CEPA) said that the best proposal in terms of state participation in the mixed society with a first class operator will be announced after the analysis.

Port La Unión Opening Delayed

August 2009

The "ASAP" start of operations of the port, announced by President Funes, will be delayed for over 18 months.

As a response to the temporary closure of Acajutla port for repairs, Funes had announced that the government was going to start operating Port La Unión.

"After some research, CEPA president Guillermo López Suárez concluded that it will take several months, a year and a half or even more, to start operations in the port", told Mauricio Funes to newspaper Elsalvador.com.

El Salvador Port Concession Unresolved

July 2009

Some of the proposals reviewed include making CEPA the administrator and operator of the port of La Unión.

Guillermo López Suárez, president of the port commission known as CEPA, is working on a new proposal. This proposal includes an updated diagnostic of the situation.

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