Renewed Interested in Salvadoran Ports

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RANSA is a group composed of Peruvian, Chilean and Salvadoran investors. Its president, Raúl Álvarez Belismelis, stated that the country is losing development opportunities due to lack of definition on how to operate Port La Unión.

"The port could be a very attractive project, an ambitious, regional endeavor. Delays only cause additional damage to the country", stated Álvarez, in an article in newspaper La Prensa Gráfica".

Source: laprensagrafica.com

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Works Start at Port Acajutla

January 2010

The $3 million project to redesign the Salvadoran Port is expected to begin in February.

Guillermo López Suarez, head of CEPA, the Port Authority, explained that the project will be carried out in three phases, ending around the end of 2010.

"The official confirmed that works will be conducted under a scheduled, staged program, to avoid interfering with the arrival of those ships who are already expected to dock at the port", reported Elsalvador.com.

APM Terminals Expresses Interest in Salvadoran Ports

September 2010

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

"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.

Little Investment for Salvadoran Ports and Airports

April 2009

CEPA finances will only allow them to invest $21.8 million that is considered critical to maintaining operations in 2009.

The Executive Autonomous Port Commission (CEPA) of El Salvador has committed its finances to the payment of the loan from the Japanese JBIC Bank for the construction of La Unión Port, leaving few resources for other investments.

More delays for port concession in El Salvador

December 2008

The impasse is no longer just technical, but also political and legal, and above all because there are no clear functions for the parties involved.

Even if the concession degree is approved for a company with recognized experience to start operating the Acajutla and La Union ports, it would not be able to do so as long as the secondary laws and internal regulations, that directly or indirectly have to do with the port, are not changed.