Cartagena bucks the recession to post positive figures

摘要

UNLIKE CORONEL, ANGAM05 or TCBuen, the box handling terminals at the Port of Cartagena -Colombia's leading Caribbean container handling port - are long established operations. While the recession hit some regional box ports badly, Cartagena has gone from strength to strength, reporting a 25% increase alone in 2010, following one of 14% in 2009. This is even more remarkable given that 65% of all containers passing through the port are transhipped. According to Alfonso Salas Trujillo, managing director of Cartagena Port Company (SPRC): "In 2011, SPRC and Contecar forecast handling 1.8m teu, equivalent to year-on-year growth of 25%. In fact, over the last five years, Cartagena has experienced nothing but growth in this sector."