Top 10: Most Important Port on Latin America

Recently Mexico has been on the list of the most important ports of Latin America thanks to their infrastructure, storage capacity and transshipment, Mexico is the number 7 on the list with the Manzanillo Port, behind this list you will find important ports as:

1. Colón (Panamá): Latin America biggest port of transshipment and one of the most modern in the world, it counts with as Evergreen and Hutchison- Whampoa, all located in the same area with a total management of 3 million of containers per year, the management of the port its public and private and has around of 2.5 Kilometers of dock.

2. Balboa (Panamá): This is a Railway Terminal Station; recently has modern port facilities that supply national e international cargo.

3. Santos (Brazil): The biggest port on the Atlantic of South America; Has 9.4 Kilometer of dock that are used for commercial purpose and tourism with the cruise lines.
Is recognized as the principal management of the Brazilian petroleum; However their main cargo is fertilizers around 1.6 TEU per year.

4. Kingston (Jamaica): With an annual traffic of 2.2 million of containers and also known as the first tourist port of south and Central America, This port has a new construction that will increase the capacity to 3.2 TEU´S per year.
Have 1.7 kilometers of dock, and a new development on infrastructure with new technology equipment.

5. Buenos Aires (Argentina): Move 1.4 millions of containers per year has 13 trastainers, 19 containeras with a flow of 80.000 TEU annually, and with 23 docking sites.

6. Cartagena (Colombia): Count with important terminals as La Sociedad Portuaria de Cartagena (CONTECAR), Docks El Bosque, Port of Mamonal, received vessels from all around the world. These three main terminals manage the 20% of total cargo and the rests it has mobilized on the others 50 docks of the private companies.

7. Puerto de Manzanillo (México): Is a key point on Transshipment for the trade with United State to central and south America. Recently has 19 docking sites (14 commercial, 3 for hydrocarbons, 2 for cruises), counts with 6.20 kilometers of internal roads and 24.70 kilometers of railways, which allows themovement of the cargo fast and safe. Started the construction of the Terminal 2 with an investment of 10 billion of pesos, with a total area of 72.42 hectares, and also 5.4 maritime hectares.
Is considering the second important port on Pacific.

8. Callao (Peru): Peru will capture on the next three years the 30% of the transshipment business of big vessels on the region thanks to the modernization that it is carrying out at the Callao port, at the north and south terminal.

9. Guayaquil (Ecuador): Counts with roads and highway infrastructure to the best cities and provinces of the country. Is the first worldwide exporter of Mango and maracuyá; also exported flowers and tropical plants from the Guayas River, Cerro Blanco, the dam of Chongón with its artificial lake and Puerto Hondo with the mangrove.

10. Freeport (Bahamas): Created in 1997 and developed as a zone free of commerce, has a great capacity of Transshipment and annually arrived 1 million of container and more than a million of tourists to enjoy the Bahamas beaches.