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St at i s t i cal Summary Year2008

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Credits Ne tw o rk Membe rs o f C entra l Ame rica n Po rt Sta tistic s

Gua t e ma l a

El Sa l v a do r

Empresa Portuaria Nacional Santo Tomás de Castilla

Empresa Portuaria Quetzal

Ramiro Antonio Ortiz Flores

Maricela Maribeth Merida Muñoz

rortiz@santotomasport.com.gt

Asesoriayplan@puerto-quetzal

COBIGUA/Puerto Barrios

Comisión Portuaria Nacional

Daniel Humberto Lemus Calderón

Jaime Rolando Rousselin Sandoval

dlemus@chiquita.com

rrousselin@cpn.gob.gt

CEPA - Acajutla

Autoridad Marítima Portuaria

Marco Tulio Castillo Cornejo

Jade Geraldine Rivera Umaña

marcotulio.castillo@cepa.gob.sv

jrivera@amp.gob.sv

Autoridad Marítima Portuaria

Puerto Corsain

Oswaldo Antonio Ortíz Sibrian

Iris Lisseth Perla Díaz

oortiz@amp.gob.sv

creditos@puertocorsain.com

Hondur a s

Empresa Nacional Portuaria Vilma Bueso Madrid salidu2005@yahoo.com

Ni c a ra gua

Cos t a Ric a

Pa na ma

Empresa Portuaria Nacional

Dirección General de Transporte Acuático - MTI

Filemon Bonilla Abarca

Hugo López

fbonilla@epn.com.ni

transacuatico@mti.gob.ni

INCOP

JAPDEVA

Christian Rojas Rivera

Rocio Valverde

nalvarez@incop.go.cr ilastro@incop.go.cr

rociov@japdeva.go.cr

Autoridad Marítima de Panamá Jacqueline Ulloa julloa@amp.gob.pa

COCATRAM Otto Noack Sierra

José Dopeso Aparicio

Arlen Antonieta Duarte Cantillano

Director Ejecutivo

Director de Asuntos Maritímos y Portuarios

Analista de Estadística y Marketing

onoack@cocatram.org.ni

jdopeso@cocatram.org.ni

aduarte@cocatram.org.ni

Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

Index

Acknowledgements …………………………………………………………………………...1 1. Cargo traffic by country and port………………………………………………. 2 2. Share of port traffic on regional trade…………………………………………

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3. Cargo traffic by seashore (Atlantic – Pacific)………………………………..

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4. Cargo traffic (quarterly)…………………………………………………………..

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5. Traffic by cargo type……………………………………………………………….. 11 6. Cargo handled in CACM ports…………………………………………………… 16 7. Ship traffic…………………………………………………………………………… 19 8. Containers traffic…………………………………………………………………..

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Annexes Port Traffic in Central America .................................................................. 23 Vessel Arrivals in Central American ........................................................... 24 Containers at Central America (TEU´s). ..................................................... 25 Summary Table: Traffic by port……………………………………………………. 26 Table 1: Cargo throughput by Country and Port……………………………….. 28 Table 2: Vessel arrivals by port, quarterly………………………………………... 30 Table 3: Vessel arrivals by ship type…………………………………………….… 32 Table 4: Traffic by cargo type……………………………………….………………. 34 Table 4-A: Traffic discharged by cargo type………….………………………….. 36 Table 4-B: Traffic loaded by cargo type…………………………………….……. 38 Table 5: Container throughput………………………………………………….…… 40 Table 6: Container throughput in TEUs……………………………………….… 43 Table 7: Port traffic arrivals by passengers’ vessel and passengers…………. 45

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

Acknowledgements

The Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM) is pleased to present to the Central American port marine community, the Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008, as a tool to support decision making and research for the subsector.

This Statistical Summary briefly contains main aspects of Central American region port performance during year 2008.

The main source of information for this report are the port companies of the region and authorities that compile national port statistics, through the members of the Network of Central American Port Statistics, that works since year 2000, coordinated by COCATRAM. This report presents information of forty ports of international service, operated by governmental and private companies, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

The first part of the Summary presents in a general and commented way the information related to the cargo, ships and traffic of containers, in relation with ports, countries, total volume of foreign trade, type of handled cargo, type of ships and size of containers, amongst others. The second part of the report presents statistical tables with consolidated regional information.

COCATRAM and Central American port sector has maintained their commitment to accomplish this activity, absolutely conscious of the great importance of it.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

1.

Cargo traffic by Country and Port

During 2008, Central American port traffic reached 94.6 million metric tons, representing, in absolute values, an increase of 0.4 million tons and 0.4% in terms of relative value, compared to 94.3 million tons during the previous period.

Cargo traffic decreased in some of the Central American Common Market (CACM) countries, unlike others as in Panama with the greater absolute increase of 2.2 million tons, followed by Honduras and Costa Rica with absolute increases of 600.000 and 200.000 tons, respectively. In relation to the relative increase, Honduras reached the higher increase of the region (6.7%), followed by Panama (5%). Table 1 represents these numbers in detail.

Ports on the Caribbean shore reported a 53.39% of the total, equivalent to 50.5 million tons and 46.61%, equivalent to 44.1 million, in those of the Pacific coast.

During the two previous years, total cargo share was 53.8% and 46.2% in 2006 and 51.4% and 48.6% in 2007, showing a consecutive increase during the three last years in the movement of the ports of the Pacific coast.

As Figure 1 shows, Panama maintains 49.7% of the total of the cargo handled in the ports of Central America and the remaining numbers doesn’t differ either significantly with the corresponding previous periods.

Table 1. Cargo throughput by country

Country

2008 Distribution 2007 (Thousands by Country (Thousands of tons) 2008 (%) of tons)

Difference (%)

Guatemala

15,860

16.8

16,876

-6.0

El Salvador

4,589

4.8

6,156

-25.4

Honduras

10,476

11.1

9,819

6.7

Nicaragua

2,799

3.0

2,938

-4.7

Costa Rica

13,909

14.7

13,674

1.7

Total CACM

47,633

50.3

49,463

-3.7

Panama Total Central America

47,047

49.7

44,826

5.0

94,679

100.0

94,289

0.4

Source: COCATRAM based on Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority data

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 In Guatemala, Puerto Barrios was the only port that registered a slight increase with a 2.5% growth, whereas the rest of their ports registered a decreased on cargo traffic.

Figure 1 Central America breakdown of cargo throughput by Country for 2008 Guatemala 16.8 El Salvador 4.8 Honduras 11.1

Panamá 49.7

Nicaragua 3.0 Costa Rica 14.7 Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

In Honduras, the volume handled in Tela increased by 43%, in Puerto Castilla 8.4% and in Puerto Cortés 6.4%.

In Nicaragua, Corinto decreased seaborne cargo by 3.3%; also Puerto Sandino decreased by 8.2% during this period. Regarding the Caribbean ports, it has to be outlined that El Rama increased its cargo by 60.8% for the second year, but Puerto Cabezas decreased its cargo traffic by 30.1%.

In the case of Costa Rica ports, the Limon-Moin Terminal Complex, the cargo traffic increased in 1.7%. Likewise, Caldera increased 3.7%.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 In Panama, the most remarkable performance is in the Atlantic coast with the increase of Manzanillo from 8.558 tons to 10.320 tons, similarly, Petrolera Terminal increased by 44.1%, Samba Bonita Terminal (Las Minas Bay) followed by Granelera Terminal (Las Minas Bay) by 21.6%, Panama Ports Company, Cristobal by 18.7%, nevertheless, there was a decline in Port Colon Terminal of 39.5%. Regarding the Pacific ports, Charco Azul experienced a 4.9% growth in the handling of its cargo and Panama Ports Terminal, Balboa a growth of 4.6%.

In terms of regional ports, the highest volumes of cargo handled were reported in Panama Ports Balboa in Panama with 15.7 million tons and Manzanillo with 10.3 million tons, followed by Limón- Moín in Costa Rica with 10.1 million tons, Puerto Cortés in Honduras with 8.5 million tons, Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala with 6.9 million and Charco Azul in Panama with 6.3 million. See Figure 2.

As Table 2 shows, a number of ports increased its total handled cargo compared to the previous period. In absolute values the highest increase corresponds to Manzanillo (1.76 million tons), followed by Terminal Petrolera (Bahia Las Minas) with 811,000 tons and Panama Port Co. Balboa with 688,000 tons.

Regarding relative increases in main ports, there are remarkable numbers, that correspond to: Terminal Petrolera (Bahia Las Minas) (44.1%), Manzanillo (20.6%), Panama Port Co. Cristóbal (18.7%) and Puerto Cortés (6.5%).

Is interesting the increase of Charco Azul (4.9%), that had a decreased of 19.0% over last period, compared to the decreased displayed by Evergreen/CCT (18.2%), which had an increase of 23% over the previous period.

Ports with the most remarkable decline in the cargo handled during the previous period are Quetzal, San José, Acajutla and Chiriquí Grande.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 2. Cargo throughput at major Central American Ports handling over 900 million metric tons

Port

Difference (Thousands (Thousands (Thousands Difference of tons) of tons) of tons) (%) Litt.

Santo Tomás de Castilla

C

4,676.8

4,713.7

-37

-0.8

Barrios

C

2,085.1

2,034.5

51

2.5

Quetzal

P

6,979.4

7,525.8

-546

-7.3

San José

P

2,118.3

2,602.4

-484

-18.6

Acajutla

P

4,435.6

5,963.8

-1,528

-25.6

Puerto Cortés

C

8,527.3

8,010.5

517

6.5

San Lorenzo

P

916.3

903.3

13

1.4

Corinto

P

1,918.5

1,984.2

-66

-3.3

Caldera

P

3,464.5

3,342.1

122

3.7

Limón - Moín

C

10,104.2

9,930.9

173

1.7

Charco Azul

P

6,315.1

6,018.3

297

4.9

Chiriquí Grande

C

2,723.4

3,520.4

-797

-22.6

Evergreen/CCT

C

4,230.0

5,169.9

-940

-18.2

Manzanillo

C

10,319.7

8,558.5

1,761

20.6

Panamá Port Co. Balboa

P

15,725.6

15,037.8

688

4.6

Panamá Port Co. Cristóbal

C

3,045.1

2,564.5

481

18.7

T. DECAL T. Petrolera ( Bahía Las Minas )

P

948.0

979.3

-31

-3.2

Year 2008

Year 2007

2,647.2 1,836.6 811 44.1 C Source: COCATRAM based on Central American Port Companies and Panama Maritime Authority data

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Of the total handled cargo, 59.0% (55.8 million tons) was discharged and the rest 41.0% (38.7 million tons) was loaded. These volumes had experienced slight changes during the last decade.

Cargo discharged decreased by 1.8% compare to the previous period and for loaded cargo there was an increase of 3.9% over 2007. The highest decrease of discharged cargo was in El Salvador (32.6%) and Guatemala (10.6%).

Total loaded cargo had an increase of 1.4 million tons compare to the previous period. Honduras had a relative higher increase in cargo loaded (9.2%) compare to the previous period and in the case of El Salvador is around 8.6%.

Figure 2 Top 10 Central American Ports and their throughput for 2008 (Thousands of metric tons) 18,000 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 2.

Share of Port Traffic on Regional Trade

According to information published by each country Central Bank and the General Controller Agency of the Republic of Panama[1], the total value of the imports and exports during year 2008 in the Central America region reached US$ 89,456,100,000. Table 3 shows a breakdown of values for each country, imports accounting for 69.12% over 30.88% for exports.

Table 3. Foreign Trade on the region, 2008 (In million US $)

Country

Imports

Exports

Total 2008

Guatemala

14,545.0

7,764.9

22,309.9

El Salvador

9,754.4

4,549.0

14,303.4

Honduras

8,821.8

2,650.9

11,472.7

Nicaragua

4,286.7

1,488.6

5,775.3

Costa Rica

15,371.6

9,675.3

25,046.9

CACM

52,779.5

26,128.7

78,908.2

Panamá

9,050.1

1,497.8

10,547.9

Total

61,829.6

27,626.5

89,456.1

(P) Preliminary figures Source: Central Bank of each country and www.contraloria.gob.pa, respectively.

Note: The trade does not include manufacturing.

Exports are expressed in FOB terms (Free on board), not including insurance and freight.

Imports are expressed in CIF terms (Cost, Insurance and Freight).

On the other hand, Table 3 shows the volume of cargo of foreign trade for each country of the region.

General Controller's Department of the Republic of Panama publishes these data in a the section of Foreign trade on its www.contraloria.gob.pa site [1]

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 3.

Cargo traffic by Seashore (Atlantic-Pacific)

Of the total volume of cargo, 53.3% was handled in ports on the Caribbean coast and 46.6% in ports of the Pacific coast. These numbers show an opposed tendency compared to the last year’s figures, since the relation in 2007 went from 51 to 49 and previous values went from 54 to 46.

Discharged cargo in Caribbean ports represented 45.1% compared to 65.3% loaded.

In this period, as in the previous one, two Panamanian ports strongly influenced this balance; Chiriqui Grande and Colon Container Terminal which had higher volumes of loaded cargo, in amounts that managed to neutralize the imbalance that in opposite sense presented mainly Caldera, Puerto Cortés, Granelera Terminal and Petrolera Terminal, amongst others. CACM multipurpose ports of the Caribbean coast present a sound balance between their discharged and loaded cargo, with exception of Puerto Cortés, due to the discharged of fuels and bulks, which in other countries is done through Pacific ports.

Figure 3 Cargo discharged and loaded by littoral in Central American Ports, 2008 (thousands of metric tons) 60,000

55,896

50,000 38,783

40,000 30,660

30,000

25,236

25,310

20,000 13,473 10,000 0 Caribbean Littoral

Pacific Littoral Discharged

Both Littoral

Loaded

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 In general, the relation between discharged and loaded cargo in the Pacific coast went from 2.5 to 1 in the last period and from 2.2 to 1 in the present period. This relation in the CACM was set aside 3 to 1. Likewise, in this coast, 77.7% of the total cargo was discharged and 22.3% loaded.

The difference between discharged and loaded cargo volumes on the Pacific coast ports is, mainly, due to cargo unloading of heavy goods products, like solid bulks and oil which accounts for an important volume of the traffic . The performance of Panamanian ports is a little different, although they are not totally out of this pattern.

Of the 55.8 million tons discharged in the period, Caribbean coast accounted for 45.1% and 54.9% for the Pacific. Similarly, of the 38.7 million tons loaded, Caribbean coast accounted for 65.3% and 34.7% for the Pacific. This distribution remained with no significant change during this period.

It turns out interesting to stand out that practically all growth in cargo handled in the previous year, was on the Caribbean coast, which, subsequently, achieved a growth of 4.6% in discharged cargo and 4.1% in loaded cargo.

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Cargo traffic (quarterly)

In terms of quarterly variations, the highest difference was 1,502,986 metric tons and the 2nd quarter reached the highest activity. The lowest volumes of discharged and loaded cargo were reported on the 1st and 4th quarters respectively. During the present period, there is no variation of the trend in the quarterly differences, which had being gradually diminished over the previous periods. As it is shown in figure 4, the quarterly variation curve is strongly influenced by the structure of the Panama curve.

The curve corresponding to Central American Common Market ports has a more balanced performance, with a maximum variation of 8.1% between 1st and 2nd (of greater volume).

The outcomes shown include the total of the activity, with the consequent compensations between ports and between countries, having all of them, their own variation patterns.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 4 Evolution of cargo throughput by country for 2008 (Quarterly, thousands of metric tons) 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 I

II

III

IV

Total Central American

Guatemala

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Panamá

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Figure 5 Cargo discharged in Central American Ports by quarter for 2008 (thousands of metric tons) 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 I

II

III

IV

Total Central America

Guatemala

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Panamá

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 6 Cargo loaded in Central America Ports by quarter for 2008 (Thousands of metric tons) 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 I

Total Central America El Salvador Nicaragua

II

III

IV

Guatemala Honduras Panamá

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Traffic by cargo type

In general, traffic by cargo type handled in Central American ports had continuously kept the trend over the last decade.

Particularly, regarding previous period, Central American Ports showed a decreased of general cargo and liquid bulks traffic, like previous year, thus like solid bulks and RO-RO cargo. Containers, that have increased last year, returned to round up its participation in 6%. Figure 7 shows a breakdown on cargo type traffic.

In absolute values, all cargo traffic categories decreased, with exception of the containerized cargo that registered an increase of 11.3%.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 7

Traffic cargo breakdown by type of cargo at Central American Ports for 2008 2% 3%

31%

53% 10% 1%

General Cargo Dry Bulk

Containerized Liquid Bulk

Ro Ro Other

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Of the total of discharged cargo, liquid bulks accounted for 37.6% (21 million tons), of which 54% was discharged on Pacific coast ports. Containerized cargo reached 40.5% (22.6 million tons), of which, 50.5% went through the Pacific coast. Solid bulks represent 15% of total discharged cargo, 8.3 million, of which 78% was discharged on Pacific coast ports.

Regarding loaded cargo, container cargo represents 69.9% (27.1 million tons), of which 70% was loaded on the Caribbean coast ports, followed by liquid bulks that represent 20.6% (8.1 million tons), of which 73.6% are from Panamanian ports which are committed to inter oceanic transfer and of product loading from fuel free zone. Solid bulks represent 3.4 (1.3 million tons).

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

Figure 8 Traffic discharged breakdown by type of cargo at Central American Ports for 2008 1% 4%

38% 40%

2%

15% General Cargo

Containerized

Ro Ro

Dry Bulk

Liquid Bulk

Other

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Figure 9 Traffic loaded breakdown by type of cargo at Central American Ports for 2008 2% 3% 21%

3% 1%

70%

General Cargo Dry Bulk

Containerized Liquid Bulk

Ro Ro Other

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Table 4. Cargo breakdown at Central American Ports by type of cargo and by percentage (2003 -2008) Year

General Cargo

Containerized

Ro-Ro

Dry Bulk

Liquid bulk

Others

2003

7.72

39.77

2.99

13.99

33.2

2.33

2004

5.33

42.01

2.01

12.34

36.26

2.05

2005

6.45

41.42

1.72

12.88

35.95

1.58

2006

5.59

42.11

1.72

14

35.13

1.25

2007

3.76

47.39

1.60

12.99

32.77

1.48

2008

3.49

52.52

1.35

10.23

30.80

1.62

Source: COCATRAM based on Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority data

All containerized cargo in Central American ports, with the exception of Evergreen/CCT, increased their volumes. The highest absolute increase was reported in Balboa (2.1 million tons), followed by Manzanillo with a growth of 1.6 million tons. In relative increase Panama Ports Company, Cristóbal (216%), Arlen Siu (44.3%) and Caldera (30%) stand stood.

Loading and discharging of roll on - roll off cargo, is concentrated in Caribbean coast multipurpose ports, mainly: Santo Tomás de Castilla (541,400) Manzanillo International Terminal (371,756), Limón - Moín (257,823) and Puerto Cortés (84,273), and that, with the rest of the ports, share 82,6% of the total, whereas in the Pacific coast, Balboa, Caldera, Quetzal, Corinto, in that order, handled this type of cargo in volumes accounting for 17.4% of the total.

The highest volumes of solid bulks discharged are handled on the Pacific coast ports through Quetzal, Caldera, Acajutla, and Corinto, and on the Caribbean Puerto Cortes and Granelera Terminal; heading Quetzal, with 34.4% of the cargo.

Liquid bulks were discharged in Charco Azul (3.9 million tons), Petrolera Terminal (2.6 million tons), Limon-Moin (2.4 million tons), Puerto Cortes (1.8 million tons) and San Jose (1.7 million tons). Loading operations were mainly made in Charco Azul (2.3 million tons) and Chiriquí Grande (2.1 million tons), that are terminals of Panama trans isthmus pipe line for petroleum and derivatives; Cristóbal (.96 million tons) Santo Tomás de Castilla (0.77 million tons), that loads the crude that is exported by Guatemala, Balboa (0.53 million tons); Acajutla (0.43 million tons), that loads alcohol, molasses and in smaller proportion derived from petroleum and San Jose (0.36 million tons) that loads molasses .

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Each country has its own breakdown of cargo type. Table 5 shows 2008 country distribution.

Figure 10 Traffic throughput by type of cargo and by littoral of Central American Ports of 2008 (thousands of metric tons) 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0

Caribbean Littoral

Pacific Littoral

General Cargo

Containerized

Ro Ro

Dry Solid

Liquid Bulk

Other

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Table 5. Cargo breakdown for 2008 by country and by percentage Containerized

RoRo

Dry Bulk

Liquid bulk

Others

Country

General Cargo

Guatemala

7.50

39.60

2.40

22.63

27.88

0.00

El Salvador

6.19

28.22

0.00

36.03

28.62

0.94

Honduras

3.63

39.91

0.80

14.05

28.70

12.90

Nicaragua

3.70

17.69

0.50

26.42

51.69

0.00

Costa Rica

6.78

57.27

2.24

13.52

19.20

0.99

CACM

6.09

42.44

1.66

19.59

26.99

3.22

Panamá

0.85

62.72

1.03

0.74

34.65

0.00

Total

3.49

52.52

1.35

10.23

30.80

1.62

Source: COCATRAM based on Central American Port Companies and Panama Maritime Authority data

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Cargo handled in CACM ports

Central American Common Market (CACM) ports handled 47.6 million metric tons, with a decrease of 3.7% (1.8 million less than the previous period).

The CACM handled volume accounts for 50.3% of the total of the region with 65% of the volume discharged and the remaining 35% was loaded. Ports on the Caribbean coast accounts for 55.6% of the traffic and those of the Pacific coast accounts for 44.4%.

Cargo distribution among CACM countries displays very slight variations. More than one third of this amount was handled in the Guatemalan ports, more than one fourth in Costa Rica and one fifth in Honduras. Figure 11 shows this breakdown.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 11 Cargo throughput at CACM ports by country for 2008 (thousands of metric tons and percentage)

Costa Rica 13,909 29%

Guatemala 15,860 33%

Nicaragua 2,799 6% El Salvador 4,589 10%

Honduras 10,476 22%

Source: Central American Ports

Figure 12 Traffic throughput by type of cargo at CACM ports for 2008 (thousands of metric tons and percentage) Other 1,532 3%

General Cargo 2,901 6%

Liquid Bulk 12,858 27%

Containerized 20,217 42%

Dry Solid 9,334 20% Ro Ro 791 2%

Source: Central American Ports

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 13 Cargo discharged and loaded breakdown by littoral at CACM ports for 2008 100% 90% 80% 70%

54.7%

64.9% 77.7%

60% 50% 40% 30% 20%

45.3%

35.1% 22.3%

10% 0% Caribbean Littoral

Pacific Littoral Loaded

CACM

Discharged

Source: Central American Ports

Cargo passing through Ports of CACM countries on the Caribbean coast represented 55.6% of the total. The discharged volume in the Pacific coast was 53.1% while 46.1% was serviced on the Caribbean coast. Meanwhile, cargo loaded in the Caribbean coast accounts for 71.8% and the remaining 28.2% was loaded in the Pacific.

In the percentage distribution of cargo type, slight changes were reported compared with the previous period. Liquid bulk cargo lost three points of participation, followed by solid bulk cargo that lost two points and RO- RO lost one point of participation compared to containerized cargo, which continues its increasing trend, as it has happened throughout the present decade. Figure 12 shows the distribution in 2008.

Figure 13 shows discharging and loading of cargo by coast. Pacific coast ports kept significant differences between loaded and discharged volumes, 22.3% and 77.7% respectively, while those on the Caribbean coast sustain a slight difference (45.3% and 54.7%), keeping the same trend of previous periods.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 7.

Ship Traffic

The Central American annual ship call composed of a mixture of merchant ships, foreign trade ships and cruises reached 17,127 during 2008 which is slightly below the level achieved in previous year. This number represented a minimal decreased of 282 ships or 1.6%.

Panama was the only country that had an increase in the number of served ships (251).

Panama Port Co. Cristobal and Manzanillo experienced the highest absolute increases in the previous year with 371 and 288 respectively.

Containerships kept their share, reaching 51.1% of the total number.

In this period, almost all types of ships kept at the same level of traffic, with the exception of barges which increased four times compared to last period, liquid bulk ships experienced an increase of 26%, followed by LNG ships with 25%, cruise ships 13%, containership that increased 1.8%, conventional ships which decreased 21%, RO – RO 17%, oil tanker 16% and solid bulk that decreased 8.7%.

Figure 14 shows the distribution by type of ships.

Regarding containerships, Manzanillo Terminal International continues to be the port of the region with the highest traffic volume of ships of this type (2002); followed by Balboa (1,174), Cortes (1,031) and Limon (871).

A total of 801 cruise ships called on ports of the region. This number represents an increase of 12.8% over previous year.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 14 Port traffic by type of vessel at Central American Ports for 2008 Barge Gas Carrier / 3% Tanker 1% Oil Tanker 5% Liquid Bulk Carrier 5%

Cruises 5%

Other 1%

Conventional 9%

Reefer 8%

Dry Bulk Carrier 3%

Ro‐Ro 9%

Containerships 51%

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

When comparing the share of ship type at CACM ports, containerships keep first place accounting for 42.8%. In general, the participation of containerships has had a slight increase compare to the previous period. Additionally 63.5% of reefer ships traffic in the ports of the CACM is serviced at Limon – Moin port complex.

The average of total cargo volume by the amount of ships on the Caribbean coast multipurpose ports is about 4,374 tons, taken mainly in the CACM ports. In the Pacific, this average is 8,343 tons. In the specialized terminals of liquid bulks the values are superior to 17,000 tons, and the highest figure is in Charco Azul.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Figure 15 Port Traffic by type of vessel at CACM for 2008

Gas Carrier / Tanker 1.8% Oil Tanker 4.1% Liquid Bulk Carrier 5.2% Dry Bulk Carrier 5.0%

Barge 0.2%

Cruises Other 5.7% 2.2%

Conventional 10.7%

Reefer 12.1%

Ro‐Ro 10.3%

Containerships 42.8%

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Containers traffic

Total container throughput in Central America was 7.45 million TEUs, of which 70.1% were laden. This figure represents an increase of 689,924 TEUs or 10.2% increased over the previous period.

Container traffic reached 4.1 million units of different types and sizes. Container throughput in Panama accounted for 65% of the total, followed by Guatemala (13%), Costa Rica (11%) and Honduras (8%).

During this period, Panama Port Balboa gained its lead as the Terminal that handles the highest amount of containers in the region accounting for one of each 3.6 containers of the total, followed by Manzanillo International Terminal, LimónMoín and Colon Container Terminal.

Figure 16 shows container throughput on main ports of the region. Ports on the Caribbean coast handled 61.98% of the total while 38.02% was handled on the Pacific coast.

The trend of traffic on the Pacific Coasts seeks to match the Caribbean, narrowing the gap during the last four years, as indicated by the volume relation of 64.1% on the Caribbean and 35.9% on the Pacific Coast.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 In the Pacific coast, container traffic in Panama Port Balboa reported a growth rate of 19.4% over the previous period, achieving container throughput of 1,255,802 units. On the other hand, El Rama, Chiriqui Grande and Caldera increased by 50.7%, 45.7% and 27.0% respectively. In general, container throughput on the Pacific coast increased by 18.16% over the previous period.

Caribbean coast ports traffic reported an increase of 7.85% over the previous period.

Figure 16 Top 11 containers ports by port throughput on Central American for 2008 (TEU's) 2,500 2,000

2,168 1,601

1,500 1,000 500

835 617

572 381

280

249

244

170

156

0

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

The total regional ratio between laden and empty containers is 2.41. The Pacific ports (2.33) reached a value higher than those of the Caribbean coast (1.67).

Likewise, stands out Chiriqui Grande with a ratio of 69.78, Puerto Cortes at 4.65, Santo Tomás de Castilla at 3.71, Barrios 3.22 and Colon Container Terminal in Panama, which reached a value of 2.76.

In terms of total container throughput of 1.46 million boxes (2.8 million TEUs), CACM ports accounted for 73% of laden containers. The distributions of box were 67% for 40 footer, 22% for 20 footer, 8% for 45 footer and 3% for 43 footer. LimonMoin and Cortes remain as the ports that handle the highest variety of box sizes.

The 40 feet boxes had experienced a more frequent use than bigger sizes. In CACM the laden containers had an approximate weight of 44.32 ton/module.

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Port Traffic in Central America (thousands of metric tons) (2001-2008) Country / Years

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Guatemala

11,246

12,217

14,640

14,678

15,753

16,080

16,876

15,860

El Salvador

4,592

4,546

4,698

4,686

5,098

5,965

6,156

4,589

Honduras

6,882

7,083

7,658

8,732

9,273

9,393

9,819

10,476

Nicaragua

2,363

2,094

2,146

2,328

2,505

2,707

2,938

2,799

Costa Rica

9,078

9,760

10,439

10,915

11,334

12,824

13,674

13,909

CACM

34,161

35,699

39,581

41,338

43,964

46,969

49,463

49,641

Panamá

23,139

21,291

24,626

34,795

36,699

39,245

44,826

47,047

57,300

56,991

64,207

76,134

80,664

86,214

94,289

94,679

Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Port traffic in Central America (Thousands of metric tons) 100,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 0 2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Vessel Arrivals in Central American (Units) (2001-2008) Country / Year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Guatemala

2,534

2,637

2,912

3,055

3,112

3,366

3,546

3,370

El Salvador

445

451

546

590

610

718

855

729

Honduras

2,154

2,212

2,293

2,324

2,309

2,377

2,547

2,456

Nicaragua

544

422

432

421

449

621

676

673

Costa Rica

2,386

2,642

2,732

2,737

2,779

3,042

3,215

3,078

CACM

8,063

8,364

8,915

9,127

9,259

10,124

10,839

10,306

Panama

4,911

4,823

5,140

5,479

5,998

6,159

6,570

6,821

12,974

13,187

14,055

14,606

15,257

16,283

17,409

17,127

Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Vessel Arrivals in Central America (Units) 19,000 17,000 15,000 13,000 11,000 9,000 7,000 5,000 2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Container throughput at Central America (TEU´s) (2001-2008) Country/Year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Guatemala

597,775

681,078

725,976

750,343

770,363

835,253

876,653

905,705

El Salvador

17,721

42,221

66,216

93,647

104,370

124,331

144,458

156,323

Honduras

397,659

413,842

470,340

555,854

591,697

593,800

636,433

669,802

Nicaragua

10,933

10,447

12,328

16,983

18,951

47,948

61,457

63,234

Costa Rica

616,900

646,971

676,438

734,088

778,651

880,436

968,559 1,004,975

CACM

1,640,988 1,794,559 1,951,298 2,150,915 2,264,032 2,481,768 2,687,560 2,800,039

Panamá Total Central America

1,591,472 1,544,774 1,991,659 2,428,799 2,774,569 3,027,562 4,074,480 4,651,926 3,232,460 3,339,333 3,942,958 4,579,714 5,038,602 5,509,329 6,762,040 7,451,965 Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Containers at Central America (TEU´s) 9,000,000 8,000,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 0 2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

Summary Table Central America: Traffic by port for 2008 Year 2008 Littoral

Country/Port Central America Guatemala

Ships

Containers

Units

Units

TEUs

15,860

3,370

530,541

905,705

Santo Tomas de Castilla

C

4,677

1,449

232,359

381,190

Barrios Quetzal San José

C P P

2,085 6,979 2,118

537 1,241 143

122,685 175,497

244,234 280,281

4,589

729

93,810

156,323

4,436 154

625 104

93,810

156,323

10,476 8,527 209 7 815 0 916

2,456 1,816 23 111 168 189 149

349,190 300,480

669,802 572,382

48,710

97,420

2,799

673

38,675

63,234

1,918 818 14 17 31 0

443 36 25 62 61 46

36,219

58,879

113 261 2,082

204 445 3,706

13,909

3,078

551,648

1,004,975

P P

3,465 2

655 76

103,615

169,827

P P C

262 76 10,104

16 9 2,322

448,033

835,148

El Salvador Acajutla Corsain Honduras

Cargo Thousands of metric tons

Puerto Cortes Tela La Ceiba Puerto Castilla Roatan San Lorenzo

P P C C C C P

Nicaragua Corinto Sandino Cabezas El Bluff El Rama San Juan del Sur

P P C C C P

Costa Rica Caldera Puntarenas Terminal de Punta Morales Terminal Fertica Limon - Moin

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Summary Table (Continued) Year 2008 Littoral

Country/Port Panama

Cargo

Ships

Containers

Thousands of metric tons

Units

Units

TEUs

47,047

6,821

2,731,860

4,651,926

Aguadulce Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante) Amador & Resorts Armuelles Charco Azul

P

0

0

C P P P

337 0 0 6,315

86 42 0 91

5,024

9,846

Chiriqui Grande

C

2,723

101

2,831

5,582

COLON 2000 Colon Port Terminal

C C

0 10

51 131

1,807

1,982

Evergreen/CCT

C

4,230

593

372,306

616,502

Manzanillo

C

10,320

2,382

945,829

1,600,792

Panama Port Co. Balboa Panama Port Co. Cristobal

P

15,726

1,609

1,255,802

2,167,977

C

3,045

1,528

148,261

249,245

Pedregal

P

0

0

T. DECAL

P

948

47

T. Granelera ( Bahia Las Minas )

C

741

39

T. Petrolera (Bahia Las Minas )

C

2,647

116

T. Samba Bonita ( Bahia Las Minas )

C

5

5

0

0

Summary table by country Guatemala 15,860 3,370 530,541 El Salvador 4,589 729 93,810 Honduras 10,476 2,456 2,456 Nicaragua 2,799 673 38,675 Costa Rica 13,909 3,078 551,648 Panama 47,047 6,821 2,731,860 Total Central America 94,679 17,127 3,948,990 Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Table 1 Central America: Cargo throughput by Country and Port (Thousands of metric tons) Year 2008

Quarter I

Country/Port

Littoral

D

L

Quarter II T

D

L

Quarter III T

D

L

Quarter IV T

D

L

Total Annual T

D

L

T

Central America

13,065 9,594 22,659 14,971 10,511 25,482 14,352 9,669 24,021 13,508 9,010 22,518 55,896 38,783 94,679

Guatemala

2,527 1,695

Santo Tomas de Castilla

C

591

606

4,222

2,642

1,648

4,290

1,197

585

649

1,234

2,430 1,374 587

609

3,804 1,196

2,339 1,204 499

551

3,543

9,938

5,922 15,860

1,050

2,261

2,416

4,677

Barrios

C

226

294

520

282

287

570

248

239

487

226

283

509

982

1,103

2,085

Quetzal

P

1,271

619

1,890

1,298

647

1,945

1,190

464

1,654

1,177

313

1,490

4,937

2,043

6,979

San Jose

P

439

176

615

478

64

541

405

63

467

437

58

495

1,758

361

2,118

860

323

1,184

947

360

1,307

812

277

1,089

809

200

1,010

3,429

1,160

4,589

El Salvador Acajutla

P

809

323

1,132

916

360

1,275

791

277

1,068

762

198

960

3,278

1,158

4,436

Corsain

P

52

0

52

32

0

32

21

0

21

47

2

49

151

2

154

1,715

952

2,667

1,862

922

2,784

1,864

868

2,732

1,550

744

2,294

6,990

3,486 10,476

1,411 56

786 0

2,197 56

1,511 57

782 0

2,293 57

1,534 50

672 0

2,206 50

1,292 47

539 0

1,831 47

5,748 209

2,779 0

Honduras Puerto Cortes Tela

C C

La Ceiba

C

0

0

0

0

2

2

0

2

2

0

3

4

1

7

7

Puerto Castilla

C

60

136

196

52

123

175

62

149

211

65

169

233

239

576

815

San Lorenzo

P

188

30

218

242

15

257

218

45

263

145

32

178

793

123

916

449

138

588

685

143

828

588

121

709

621

53

674

2,344

455

2,799

Nicaragua

8,527 209

Corinto

P

288

136

424

409

141

550

413

115

528

366

50

416

1,476

442

1,918

Sandino

P

146

0

146

262

0

262

165

0

165

245

0

245

818

0

818

Cabezas

C

3

0

3

5

0

5

4

0

4

2

0

2

14

1

14

El Bluff El Rama

C C

5 6

0 2

6 8

5 4

0 2

6 6

2 4

0 5

3 9

3 5

0 3

4 8

16 19

1 11

17 31

San Juan del Sur

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1,994 1,499

3,492

2,283

1,641

3,924

2,107 1,309

3,416

1,822 1,254

3,077

8,205

Costa Rica

5,703 13,909

Caldera

P

746

116

862

736

144

879

814

96

910

737

76

813

3,033

432

3,465

Puntarenas Terminal de Punta Morales

P

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

2

P

17

51

68

51

59

110

35

32

68

0

16

16

104

158

262

Terminal Fertica

P

10

0

10

40

0

40

26

0

26

0

0

0

76

0

76

Limon - Moin

C

1,219 1,332

2,552

1,456

1,438

2,893

1,232 1,181

2,413

1,085 1,161

2,246

4,992

D: discharged

L: loaded

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5,112 10,104

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Quarter I Littoral

Panama

D

L

Quarter II T

D

5,521 4,986 10,506

L

Quarter III T

D

L

Quarter IV T

D

L

Total Annual T

D

L

T

6,552 5,797 12,349 6,551 5,719 12,270 6,366 5,555 11,921 24,990 22,057 47,047

Aguadulce

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

29

50

78

11

79

91

22

75

97

7

64

71

69

268

337

Armuelles

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Charco Azul

P

898

464

1,362

1,120

921

2,041 1,007

516

1,524

960

428

1,388

3,986

2,329

6,315

Chiriqui Grande

C

147

592

739

199

408

607

10

598

607

180

591

771

536

2,188

2,723

Colon Port Terminal

C

3

0

3

0

0

1

2

1

4

2

1

3

7

3

10

Evergreen/CCT

C

193

866

1,058

159

855

1,014

188

905

1,093

152

913

1,064

691

3,539

4,230

Manzanillo

C

879 1,178

2,057

1,216 1,444

2,659 1,302 1,655

2,957 1,175 1,471

2,647

4,572

5,748 10,320

Panama Port Co. Balboa

P

1,988 1,537

3,525

2,326 1,663

3,989 2,693 1,697

4,390 2,295 1,527

3,822

9,302

6,424 15,726

Panama Port Co. Cristobal

C

353

300

653

454

427

882

319

252

571

380

560

939

1,507

1,538

3,045

Pedregal

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

T. DECAL

P

235

0

235

221

0

221

281

0

281

211

0

211

948

0

948

T. Granelera (Bahia Las Minas)

C

123

0

123

193

0

193

242

0

242

184

0

184

741

0

741

T. Petrolera (Bahia Las Minas)

C

673

0

673

652

0

652

480

21

500

822

0

822

2,626

21

2,647

T. Samba Bonita (Bahia Las Minas)

C

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

4

0

0

0

5

0

5

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 2 Central America: Vessel arrivals by port, quarterly Year 2008 Country/Port GUATEMALA Santo Tomas de Castilla Barrios Quetzal San José Total Guatemala EL SALVADOR Acajutla Corsain Total El Salvador

Littoral Quarter I

Quarter II

Quarter III

Quarter IV

Total Annual

C C P P

392 141 354 38 925

363 134 315 37 849

333 117 283 35 768

361 145 289 33 828

1,449 537 1,241 143 3,370

P P

167 27 194

164 25 189

149 27 176

145 25 170

625 104 729

C C C C C P

488 7 37 43 83 37 695

461 6 33 36 35 40 611

446 5 22 44 27 39 583

421 5 19 45 44 33 567

1,816 23 111 168 189 149 2,456

Corinto

P

120

110

104

109

443

Sandino San Juan del Sur Cabezas El Bluff El Rama Total Nicaragua

P P C C C

5 32 6 15 17 195

12 2 8 16 14 162

8 0 6 16 15 149

11 12 5 15 15 167

36 46 25 62 61 673

P P P P C

191 25 6 1 633

171 16 7 5 578

143 1 2 3 546

150 34 1 0 565

655 76 16 9 2,322

856

777

695

750

3,078

HONDURAS Cortes Tela La Ceiba Castilla Roatan San Lorenzo Total Honduras NICARAGUA

COSTA RICA Caldera Puntarenas Terminal de Punta Morales Terminal Fertica Limon-Moin Total Costa Rica

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 2 (Continued) Central America: Vessel arrivals by port, quarterly Year 2008 Country/Port

Littoral Quarter I

Quarter II

Quarter III

Quarter IV

Total Annual

PANAMA Aguadulce

P

0

0

0

0

0

Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

18

23

19

26

86

Amador & Resorts

P

22

2

0

18

42

Armuelles

P

0

0

0

0

0

Charco Azul

P

20

33

20

18

91

Chiriqui Grande

C

25

26

27

23

101

COLON 2000

C

30

4

0

17

51

Colon Port Terminal

C

28

26

40

37

131

Evergreen CCT

C

181

159

132

121

593

Manzanillo

C

556

583

629

614

2,382

Panama Port Co. Balboa

P

361

355

406

487

1,609

Panama Port Co. Cristobal

C

448

431

365

284

1,528

Pedregal

P

0

0

0

0

0

T. Decal

P

12

11

10

14

47

T. Granelera

C

8

9

12

10

39

T. Petrolera

C

33

29

31

23

116

T. Samba Bonita

C

0

2

1

2

5

1,742

1,693

1,692

1,694

6,821

Guatemala

925

849

768

828

3,370

El Salvador

194

189

176

170

729

Honduras

695

611

583

567

2,456

Nicaragua

195

162

149

167

673

Costa Rica

856

777

695

750

3,078

Panama

1,742

1,693

1,692

1,694

6,821

4,607

4,281

4,063

4,176

17,127

Total Panama Summary table by country

Total Central America

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 3 Central America: Vessel arrivals by ship type (Units) Year 2008 Country/Port

Dry Liquid ConvenRo- Bulk Bulk Oil Gas Littoral tional Reefer Containerships Ro Carrier Carrier Tanker Carrier/Tanker Barge Cruises Other Total

GUATEMALA Santo Tomas de Castilla

C

244

116

630

264

14

108

18

52

3 1,449

Barrios Puerto Quetzal

C

44

86

366

0

7

21

0

0

13

0

0

P

71

100

686

72

169

29

29

11

0

44

30 1,241

San José

P

0

0

0

0

0

143

0

0

0

0

0

359

302

1,682

336

190

301

47

11

13

96

33 3,370

98

132

Total Guatemala

537

143

EL SALVADOR Acajutla

P

Corsain

P

Total El Salvador

101

289

5

21

5

625

0

78

104 729

101

0

289

0

103

132

0

21

0

0

83

45

1,031

351

119

43

108

36

6

8

22 1,816

HONDURAS Puerto Cortes

C

47

Tela La Ceiba

C C

79

Puerto Castilla Roatan

C C

San Lorenzo

P

Total Honduras

23 32 46

107

15

168 189

189 12 138

91

59

5

6

67

1,138

410

124

64

198

186

55

23 111

149 36

6

197

54 2,456

14

4

NICARAGUA 106

443

Corinto

P

78

Sandino San Juan del Sur Cabezas

P

6

P C

10

15

46 25

El Bluff

C

53

9

62

El Rama Total Nicaragua

C

61 208

0

186

55

0

0

160

0

0

60

4

61 673

P

105

62

244

77

88

4

0

0

0

36

39

655

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

76

0

76

Terminal de Punta Morales

P

0

0

0

0

3

13

0

0

0

0

0

16

Terminal Fertica

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

9

9

Limon-Moin

C

189

794

871

183

3

20

21

115

294

856

1,115

260

94

37

21

115

COSTA RICA Caldera Terminal Puntarenas

Total Costa Rica

30

36 46

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

0

122

4.000 2,322

234

52 3,078

32

Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008

Table 3(Continued) Central America: Vessel arrivals by ship type (Units) Year 2008 Country/Port PANAMA Aguadulce Almirante

ConvenRoLittoral tional Reefer Containerships Ro

Dry Liquid Bulk Bulk Oil Gas Carrier Carrier Tanker Carrier/Tanker Barge Cruises Other Total

P C

0 0

0 86

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 86

AMADOR & RESORTS

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

42

0

42

Armuelles

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Panama Port Co. Balboa

P

22

15

1,174

82

34

86

70

0

126

0

0

1,609

Panama Port Co. Cristobal

C

83

22

569

25

43

148

133

0

384

121

0

1,528

Charco Azul

C

0

0

0

0

0

0

91

0

0

0

0

91

Chiriqui Grande

C

42

10

0

0

0

0

49

0

0

0

0

101

COLON 2000

C

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

51

0

51

Colon Port Terminal Evergreen CCT

C P

127 7

0 0

3 586

1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

131 593

Manzanillo

C

23

2

2,002

352

1

0

2

0

0

0

0

2,382

Pedregal

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

T. Decal

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

47

0

0

0

0

47

T. Petrolera T. GRANELERA

C

0

0

0

0

0

23

93

0

0

0

0

116

C

39

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

39

C

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

348

135

4,334

460

78

257

485

0

510

214

0

6,821

Guatemala

359

302

1,682

336

190

301

47

11

13

96

33

3,370

El Salvador

101

0

289

0

103

132

0

21

0

0

83

729

Honduras

138

91

1,138

410

124

64

198

36

6

197

54

2,456

Nicaragua

208

0

186

55

0

0

160

0

0

60

4

673

T. Samba Bonita TOTAL Summary Table

Costa Rica

294

856

1,115

260

94

37

21

115

0

234

52

3,078

Panama

348

135

4,334

460

78

257

485

0

510

214

0

6,821

1,448

1,384

8,744

1,521

589

791

911

183

529

801

226

17,127

Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4 Central America: Traffic by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Year 2008 Country/Port

Littoral

GUATEMALA Santo Tomas Barrios

C C

333 331

P P

P

Quetzal San Jose Total Guatemala EL SALVADOR Acajutla Corsain Total El Salvador

General cargo Containerized

Ro-Ro

Dry Bulk

Liquid bulk

2,508 1,605

341 0

209 46

1,285 103

0 0

4,677 2,085

525 0 1,189

2,166 0 6,280

39 0 381

3,334 0 3,589

915 2,118 4,421

0 0 0

6,979 2,118 15,860

284

1,295

0

1,608

1,248

0

4,436

0

0

0

45

66

284

1,295

0

1,653

1,314

43 43

154 4,589

Other

Total

HONDURAS Puerto Cortes Tela

C C

255 0

3,672 0

84 0

1,394 0

1,957 209

1,166 0

8,527 209

La Ceiba

C

7

0

0

0

0

0

7

Puerto Castilla

C

33

510

0

0

88

185

815

San Lorenzo

P

86

0

0

78

752

0

916

381

4,181

84

1,472

3,007

1,351

10,476

Total Honduras NICARAGUA Corinto Sandino

P P

92 0

468 0

14 0

661 79

684 739

0 0

1,918 818

Cabezas

C

0

1

0

0

13

0

14

El Bluff

C

1

6

0

0

10

0

17

El Rama Total Nicaragua COSTA RICA

C

9 104

21 495

0 14

0 740

0 1,447

0 0

31 2,799

Caldera Puntarenas

P P

314 1

1,195 0

54 0

1,826 0

16 1

60 0

3,465 2

Punta Morales Terminal Fertica

P

0 0

0 0

0 0

29 0

233 0

0 76

262 76

Limon-Moin

C

629

6,771

258

25

2,420

1

10,104

944

7,966

312

1,880

2,670

138

13,909

Total Costa Rica

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4 (Continued) Central America: Traffic by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Year 2008 Country/Port

Littoral

General cargo Containerized

Dry Bulk

Ro Ro

Liquid bulk

Other

Total

PANAMA Aguadulce

P

Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

Armuelles

P

Charco Azul

P

Chiriqui Grande

C

Colon Port Terminal

C

Evergreen C.C.T.

C

Manzanillo Int´l Terminal Panama Port Co. Balboa

C

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

259

78

0

0

0

0

337

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 6,315

0 0

0 6,315

16 7

63 3

0 0

0 0

2,644 0

0 0

2,723 10

0

4,230

0

0

0

0

4,230

0

9,948

372

0

0

0

10,320

P

0

14,327

114

6

1,278

0

15,726

Panama Port Co. Cristobal

C

104

861

0

45

2,035

0

3,045

Pedregal

P

T. DECAL

P C C C

0 0 10 0 5

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 297 0 0

0 948 434 2,647 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 948 741 2,647 5

401

29,509

486

348

16,302

0

47,047

1,189 284 381 104 944 401

6,280 1,295 4,181 495 7,966 29,509

381 0 84 14 312 486

3,589 1,653 1,472 740 1,880 348

4,421 1,314 3,007 1,447 2,670 16,302

0 43 1,351 0 138 0

15,860 4,589 10,476 2,799 13,909 47,047

3,302 49,726 1,277 9,682 29,160 Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

1,532

94,679

T. Granelera T. Petrolera T. Samba Bonita Total Panama Summary table by country Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Total Central America

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4-A Central America: Traffic discharged by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Country/Port GUATEMALA Santo Tomas de Castilla

Littoral C

Barrios

C

Quetzal

P

San José

P

Total Guatemala

General cargo

Containerized

Ro Ro

Dry Bulk

Liquid bulk

Other

Total

52

1,312

180

209

509

0

2,261

192 400

642 1,061

0 39

46 2,612

103 825

0 0

982 4,937

0

0

0

0

1,758

0

1,758

645

3,014

219

2,866

3,194

0

9,938

277

824

0

1,364

813

0

3,278

0 277

0 824

0 0

45 1,409

66 879

41 41

151 3,429

214 0

1,762 0

55 0

1,298 0

1,836 209

584 0

5,748 209

1 0

0 144

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 95

1 239

51

0

0

32

710

0

793

266

1,906

55

1,329

2,755

678

6,990

53

289

14

532

588

0

1,476

0

0

0

79

739

0

818

0

0

0

0

13

0

14

1 8

4 11

0 0

0 0

10 0

0 0

16 19

63

305

14

611

1,351

0

2,344

312

809

54

1,826

16

16

3,033

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

104 0

0 76

104 76

595 907

1,787 2,596

164 219

25 1,851

2,420 2,540

0 92

4,992 8,205

EL SALVADOR Acajutla

P

Corsain

P

Total El Salvador HONDURAS Cortes

C

Tela

C

La Ceiba

C

Castilla

C

San Lorenzo

P

Total Honduras NICARAGUA Corinto

P

Sandino

P

Cabezas

C

El Bluff

C

El Rama

C

Total Nicaragua COSTA RICA Caldera

P

Puntarenas

P

Terminal Punta Morales

P

Terminal Fertica Limon-Moin Total Costa Rica

C

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4-A (Continued) Central America: Traffic discharged by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Country/Port

Littoral

General cargo

Containerized

Ro-Ro

Dry Bulk

Liquid bulk

Other

Total

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

15

54

0

0

0

0

69

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3,986

0

3,986

16

10

0

0

510

0

536

7

0

0

0

0

0

7

PANAMA Aguadulce

P

Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

Armuelles

P

Charco Azul

P

Chiriqui Grande

C

Colon Port Terminal

C

Evergreen C.C.T.

C

Manzanillo Int´l Terminal

C

0 0

691 4,366

0 206

0 0

0 0

0 0

691 4,572

Panama Port Co. Balboa Panama Port Co. Cristobal

P

0

8,444

105

6

747

0

9,302

C

26

405

0

2

1,073

0

1,507

Pedregal

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

T. DECAL

P

0

0

0

0

948

0

948

T. Granelera

C

10

0

0

297

434

0

741

T. Petrolera

C

0

0

0

0

2,626

0

2,626

T. Samba Bonita

C

5

0

0

0

0

0

5

80

13,969

311

305

10,325

0

24,990

645

3,014

219

2,866

3,194

0

9,938

277

824

0

1,409

879

41

3,429

266

1,906

55

1,329

2,755

678

6,990

63

305

14

611

1,351

0

2,344

907

2,596

219

1,851

2,540

92

8,205

80

13,969

311

305

10,325

0

24,990

2,238

22,613

818

8,372

21,044

812

55,896

Total Panama Summary table by country Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4-B Central America: Traffic loaded by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Year 2008 Country/Port GUATEMALA Santo Tomas de Castilla

Littoral C

General cargo Containerized

Ro-Ro

Dry Bulk

1,197 964

162 0

Liquid bulk

Other

0 0

777 0

0 0

1,103

Total 2,416

Barrios

C

280 139

Quetzal

P

125

1,105

0

722

90

0

2,043

San José

P

0 544

0 3,266

0 162

0 722

361 1,227

0

361

0

5,922

P P

7 0 7

472 0 472

0 0 0

245 0 245

435 0 435

0 2 2

1,158 2 1,160

C

40

1,910

29

96

122

582

2,779

Tela

C

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

La Ceiba

C

7

0

0

0

0

0

7

Castilla

C P

365 0

0 0

0 47

88 42

91 0

576

San Lorenzo

33 35

123

115

2,275

29

143

251

673

3,486

Total Guatemala EL SALVADOR Acajutla Corsain Total El Salvador HONDURAS Cortes

Total Honduras NICARAGUA Corinto

P

Sandino

P

39 0

179 0

0 0

129 0

96 0

0 0

442 0

Cabezas

C

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

El Bluff

C

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

El Rama

C

1 40

11 191

0 0

0 129

0 96

0 0

11 455

P P

2 1

386 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

45 0

432 1

0

0

0

29

130

0

158

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

34 36

4,984 5,370

93 93

0 29

0 130

1 45

5,112 5,703

Total Nicaragua COSTA RICA Caldera Puntarenas Terminal Punta Morales

P

Terminal Fertica Limon-Moín Total Costa Rica

C

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 4-B (Continued) Central America: Traffic loaded by cargo type (Thousands of metric tons) Country/Port

Littoral

General cargo Containerized

Dry Bulk

Ro Ro

Liquid bulk

Other

Total

PANAMA Aguadulce

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Almirante

C

244

24

0

0

0

0

268

Armuelles

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Charco Azul

P

0

0

0

0

2,329

0

2,329

Chiriqui Grande

C

0

53

0

0

2,134

0

2,188

Colon Port Terminal

C

0

2

0

0

0

0

3

Evergreen C.C.T.

C

0

3,539

0

0

0

0

5,582

166

0

0

0

3,539

Manzanillo Int´l Terminal Panama Port Co. Balboa Panama Port Co. Cristobal

P

0

5,883

9

0

532

C

78

456

0

43

961

Pedregal

P

0

0

0

0

0

T. DECAL

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

21

0

0

0

0

0

322

15,540

175

43

5,977

0

22,057

Guatemala

544

3,266

162

722

1,227

0

5,922

El Salvador

7

472

0

245

435

2

1,160

Honduras

115

2,275

29

143

251

673

3,486

Nicaragua

40

191

0

129

96

0

455

Costa Rica

36

5,370

93

29

130

45

5,703

Panama

322

15,540

175

43

5,977

0

22,057

1,064

27,114

460

1,310

8,116

720

38,783

T. Granelera T. Petrolera T. Samba Bonita Total Panama

C

C C C

0

5,748

0

6,424

0

1,538

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

21

0

0

Summary table by country

Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 5 Central America: Container throughput (Units) Discharged

Loaded

DT

LT

Country/Port Littoral Laden Empty Laden Empty Laden Empty Laden Empty Santo Tomas de Castilla

Transshipment

Total Modules

Laden

Laden

Empty

Empty

C

Containers 45'

6557

557

5277

1611

1105.981

11834

2168

Containers 40'

43,417

16,463

45,969

12,858

8,354

89386

29321

Containers 20'

23,785

4,603

18,343

6,869

3,937

42128

11472

Total Containers

73,759

21,623

69,589

21,338

13,397

156745

42961

Wheeled boxes

11,437

2,763

11,090

3,607

3,756

26283

6370

Total Puerto Barrios

85,196

24,386

80,679

24,945

17,153

0

183,028

49,331

Containers 45'

824

0

623

463

313

0

11

0

2

0

1,773

463

Containers 43'

7,076

3,121

10,156

676

844

0

13

0

4,820

0

22,909

3,797

Containers 40'

16,564

20,305

36,420

4,327

4,618

0

1,410

0

8,954

9

67,966

24,641

Containers 20'

479

53

368

149

65

0

20

0

2

0

934

202

24,943

23,479

47,567

5,615

5,840

0

1,454

0

13,778

9

93,582

29,103

Containers 45'

1,121

21

919

797

104

0

39

0

30

0

2,213

818

Containers 40'

32,500

10,109

23,008

19,713

3,645

0

388

0

8,744

2,888

68,285

32,710

Containers 20'

20,792

8,459

23,911

8,011

619

0

106

0

7,323

2,250

52,751

18,720

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

54,413

18,589

47,838

28,521

4,368

0

533

0

16,097

5,138

123,249

52,248

Total Guatemala

164,552

66,454 176,084

59,081 10,208

0

1,987

0

47,028

5,147

399,859

130,682

C

Total Puerto Quetzal

P

Wheeled boxes

El Salvador P

Acajutla Containers 45'

2,319

70

1,229

748

3,548

818

Containers 40'

27,537

1,626

12,525

16,459

40,062

18,085

Containers 20'

16,440

31

4,274

10,552

20,714

10,583

Total El Salvador

46,296

1,727

18,028

27,759

64,324

29,486

DT: Discharge Transit

LT: Loaded Transit

Central American Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM)

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 5 (Continued) Central America: Container throughput (Units) Discharged Loaded DT LT Transshipment Country/Port Littoral Laden Empty Laden Empty Laden Empty Laden Empty Laden Empty

Total Modules Laden Empty

Honduras C

Cortes Containers 48'

265

12

66

94

331

106

Containers 45'

36,260

1,678

33,669

5,127

69,929

6,805

Containers 43'

5,614

435

5,816

241

11,430

676

Containers 40'

60,329

19,159

66,859

15,102

127,188

34,261

Containers 20' Wheeled boxes

20,786

3,825

17,595

7,548

38,381

11,373

123,254

25,109 124,005

28,112

247,259

53,221

Total Castilla

C

Containers 40'

8,580

17,623

19,489

3,018

28,069

20,641

Total

8,580

17,623

19,489

3,018

28,069

20,641

42,732 143,494

31,130

275,328

73,862

San Lorenzo

P

Containers 40' Containers 20' Total Total Honduras Nicaragua

131,834 P

Corinto Containers 45'

108

139

63

107

Containers 40'

10,788

998

5,531

4,524

147

Containers 20'

7,107

25

1,824

4,385

161

Total Puerto Cabezas Containers 40'

18,003

1,162

7,418

9,016

308

2

147

2

161 2

308

2

0

0

171

246

16,613

5,526

9,253

4,410

26,037

10,182

C 18

0

73

0

91

0

Containers 20'

22

0

0

0

22

0

Total El Bluff Containers 40'

40

0

73

0

113

0

48

12

72

52

120

64

3

34

43

34

C

Containers 20'

40

Total

88

12

75

86

163

98

827 228

0

273 63

524 167

1,100 291

524 167

1,055

0

336

691

1,391

691

19,186

1,174

7,902

9,793

27,704

10,971

EL Rama Containers 40' Containers 20' Total Total Nicaragua

C

DT: Discharge Transit

308

2

308

2

0

0

LT: Loaded Transit

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 5 (Continued) Central America: Container throughput (Units) Discharged Laden Empty

Loaded Laden Empty

Containers 40'

29,577

4,178

15,232

17,225

44,809

21,403

Containers 20'

19,192

84

3,231

14,896

22,423

14,980

0

0

48,769

4,262

18,463

32,121

67,232

36,383

Containers 52'

1

1

0

2

0

0

1

3

Containers 45'

5,194

4,722

6,418

1,771

69

69

11,612

6,493

1,004 190 4,378 83,950 96,244 159,608 28,673 1,643 17,012 118,822 102,800 187,416

18 20,106 15,239 37,136

0 3,179 513 3,761

0 3,181 513 3,763

5,382 243,558 45,685 306,238

208 116,350 16,882 139,936

624

79

79

1,086

773

Country/Port

Littoral

DT LT Laden Empty Laden Empty

Transshipment Laden Empty

Total Modules Laden Empty

Costa Rica Caldera

P

Wheeled boxes Total Limon-Moín

C

Containers 43' Containers 40' Containers 20' Total Containers Wheeled boxes Total wheeled boxes Total Total Costa Rica

0

728

149

358

728

149

358

624

79

0

79

1,086

773

119,550 102,949 187,774 168,319 107,211 206,237

37,760 69,881

3,840 3,840

0 0

3,842 3,842

307,324 374,556

140,709 177,092

Panama Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

2,553

659

1,110

702

0

0

3,663

1,361

C

345

40

2,446

0

0

0

2,791

40

C

39

778

977

13

0

0

1,016

791

C

40,657

290 232,637

98,722

0

0

273,294

99,012

C

56,729

35,830

69,138

27,469

503,468

253,195

629,335

316,494

P

72,255

5,978

15,862

40,850

796,967

323,890

885,084

370,718

C

21,762

29,504

32,522

11,933

38,547

13,993

92,831

55,430

P

0 194,340

0 0 73,079 354,692

0 179,689

0 1,338,982

0 591,078

0 1,888,014

0 843,846

Guatemala El Salvador

164,552 46,296

66,454 176,084 1,727 18,028

59,081 10,208 27,759 0

0 0

1,987 0

0 0

47,028 0

5,147 0

399,859 64,324

130,682 29,486

Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica

131,834 42,732 143,494 19,186 1,174 7,902 119,550 102,949 187,774

31,130 9,793 37,760

0 308 3,840

0 2 0

0 308 3,842

0 2 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

275,328 27,704 307,324

73,862 10,971 140,709

Panama

194,340

179,689

0

0

0

0

1,338,982

591,078

1,888,014

843,846

345,212 14,356

2

6,137

2

1,386,010

596,225

2,962,553

1,229,556

Chiriqui Grande Colon Port Terminal Evergreen (C.C.T.) Manzanillo Int´l Terminal Panama Port Co. Balboa Panama Port Co. Cristobal T. Samba Bonita (Bahia Las Minas) Total Panama

Summary table by country

Grand Total

73,079 354,692

675,758 288,115 887,974

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority DT: Discharge Transit LT: Loaded Transit

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 6 Central America Isthmus: Container throughput in TEUs Discharged Country/Port

Loaded

DT

LT

Transshipment

Littoral

Laden

Empty

Laden

Empty

Laden Empty Laden Empty

Laden

Santo Tomas de Castilla

C

149,285

44,316

144,420

43,169

Barrios

C

49405

46905

94766

11081

11613

0

2888

0

27558

Puerto Quetzal

P

88314

28724

71995

49230

8143

0

970

0

287,004

119,945

311,181

103,480 19,756

0

3,858

0

76,152

3,423

31,782

76,152

3,423

Total

Empty

Total

Laden

Empty

TEUs

293,705

87,485

381,190

18

186,230

58,004

244,234

24879

8026

194,301

85,980

280,281

52,437

8,044

674,236

231,469

905,705

44,966

107,934

48,389

156,323

31,782

44,966

107,934

48,389

156,323

GUATEMALA

Total Guatemala EL SALVADOR Acajutla

P

Corsain

P

Total El Salvador HONDURAS Cortes

C

235,735

46,883

239,732

50,032

475,467

96,915

572,382

Castilla

C

17,160

35,246

38,978

6,036

56,138

41,282

97,420

San Lorenzo

P 252,895

82,129

278,710

56,068

531,605

138,197

669,802

Total Honduras NICARAGUA Corinto

P

28,926

2,334

13,028

13,674

455

4

455

4

0

0

42,864

16,016

58,879

El Bluff

C

136

24

147

138

0

0

0

0

0

0

283

162

445

El Rama

C

1,882

0

609

1,215

0

0

0

0

0

0

2,491

1,215

3,706

Cabezas

C

58

0

146

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

204

0

204

31,002

2,358

13,930

15,027

455

4

455

4

0

0

45,842

17,393

63,234

Total Nicaragua COSTA RICA Caldera

P

78,346

8,440

33,695

49,346

112,041

57,786

169,827

Limon-Moin

C

210,421

205,167

360,081

59,480

570,502

264,646

835,148

288,767

213,607

393,776

108,826

682,543

322,432 1,004,975

Total Costa Rica

DT: Discharge Transit

LT: Loaded Transit

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Table 6 (Continued) Central America Isthmus: Container throughput in TEUs Discharged Country/Port

Littoral

Laden

Loaded

Empty

Laden

DT

Empty

LT

Transshipment

Laden Empty Laden Empty

Laden

Total

Empty

Total

Laden

Empty

TEUs

Panama Bocas Fruit Co. (Almirante)

C

4,960

1,310

2,176

1,400

0

0

7,136

2,710

9,846

Chiriqui Grande

C

690

0

4,892

0

0

0

5,582

0

5,582

Colon Port Terminal Evergreen (C.C.T.)

C

40

913

1,016

13

0

0

1,056

926

1,982

C

72,742

475

29,897

56,224

342,621

114,543

445,260

171,242

616,502

Manzanillo Int´l Terminal

C

94,312

62,278

117,115

46,453

845,709

434,925

1,057,136

543,656 1,600,792

Panama Port Co. Balboa

P

129,896

11,581

30,009

73,457

1,348,159

574,875

1,508,064

659,913 2,167,977

C

36,679

51,258

57,598

19,829

61,606

22,275

155,883

93,362

249,245

P

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

339,319

127,815

242,703 197,376

2,598,095

1,146,618

3,180,117

Guatemala

287,004

119,945

311,181 103,480 19,756

0

3,858

0

52,437

8,044

674,236

231,469

905,705

El Salvador

76,152

3,423

31,782

44,966

0

0

0

0

0

0

107,934

48,389

156,323

Honduras

252,895

82,129

278,710

56,068

0

0

0

0

0

0

531,605

138,197

669,802

Nicaragua

31,002

2,358

13,930

15,027

455

4

455

4

0

0

45,842

17,393

63,234

Costa Rica

288,767

213,607

393,776 108,826

0

0

0

0

0

0

682,543

322,432 1,004,975

Panama

339,319

127,815

242,703 197,376

0

0

0

0

2,598,095

1,146,618

3,180,117

1,471,809 4,651,926

1,275,139

549,276

1,272,082 525,742 20,211

4

4,313

4

2,650,532

1,154,662

5,222,277

2,229,689 7,451,965

Panama Port Co. Cristobal T. Samba Bonita (Bahia Las Minas ) Total Panama

1,471,809 4,651,926

Summary table by country

Total Central America

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority DT: Discharge Transit

LT: Loaded Transit

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Central American Port Statistical Summary, Year 2008 Table 7 Central America: Port traffic arrivals by passengers’ vessel and passengers (Units) Vessel Arrivals Country/Port GUATEMALA

Passengers

Littoral Cruises Sailboats Cultural Yacht Total Arriving Disembark Departure

Santo Tomas de Castilla

C

Barrios Quetzal

C P

Total Guatemala EL SALVADOR Acajutla Corsain Total El Salvador HONDURAS

52

0

52

0 44

0 1

0 45

96

1

8 189 197

2

Crew

70,265

70,265

30,292

0 60,359

0 0

0 0

0 28,741

97

60,359

70,265

70,265

59,033

10 189 199

2,845 432,044 434,889

P P

Cortes Roatan Total Honduras NICARAGUA Corinto San Juan del Sur Total Nicaragua

C C

COSTA RICA Caldera Puntarenas Limon-Moin Total Costa Rica PANAMA

P P

14 46 60

P P

36 76

C

122 234

2

14 46 60 2

38 76

5,179 94,149

122 2

1,713 169,354 171,067 24,257 35,423 59,680

24,257 35,412 59,669

4,474 263

4,493 193

181,795

236

99328

186532

4686

42

23,741

5,525

6,804

Amador & Resorts

C

42

Balboa

P

0

0

0

0

0

COLON 2000 P Cristobal P Total Panama Summary table by country

70 126 238

70

2,843

91,340

90,699

126 238

2,351 28,935

137,350 234,215

136,119 233,622

Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama

96 0 197 60 234 238 801

97 0 199 60 236 238 830

60,359 0 434,889 0 99,328 28,935 623,511

70,265 0 0 59,680 186,532 234,215 550,692

70,265 0 0 59,669 4,686 233,622 368,242

Total Central America

1 0 2 0 2 0 5

12,211 11,874 24,085

Source: Central American Ports and Panama Maritime Authority

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