The concession was awarded by the technical committee of the bid process comprising members of the Commission for the Public-Private Alliance (COALIANZA), an entity of the federal government of Honduras, and FICOHSA bank, the trustee of the conferred contract.
The intention is for the Puerto Cortes terminal to eventually comprise 1,100 m of quay for containers and 400 m for general cargo, 14 m of draft (that can reach 15 m), 62.2 hectares of total surface area, 12 ship-to-shore cranes and an annual volume capacity of approximately 1.8m teu.
Puerto Cortes which is located on the Caribbean Sea on the northeastern coast of Honduras handles around 90% (8m tonnes) of the country’s maritime cargo.
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