Cartagena becomes leading box transhipment hub in Caribbean

摘要

Cartagena, on the Atlantic coast of Colombia, has become one of the largest transhipment terminals in the Caribbean last year handling 3.13m teu, up 6.5% despite the pandemic. Transhipment traffic for the Caribbean area 'It was the first time that we pass the mark of 3m teu,' says commercial director Giovanni Benedetti, with transhipment traffic growing 7.7% to reach 2.3m teu. Imports fell 9.5%, however, leading to a slight decline in revenues because of lower storage fees, he adds. Meanwhile, exports handled by the port grew by 4.4% due to a rise in dried and reefer products, the latter increasing by 56.6%. Cartagena added 800 plugs to a total of 4,000 plugs making the Colombian port the largest reefer terminal in the Americas, avocados and bananas being the main agricultural exports.