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New port multipurpose in Colombia
Near Cartagena a terminal for handling will be realized container, goods conventional and liquid bulk and sand banks
April 8, 2011
The Columbian port of Cartagena will be equipped of a new harbour area realized to south of the Bay of Cartagena and called Puerto Bahía. It will be be a matter of a terminal of 475 meters of length and 55 meters of width that will be used it is for the oil exports that for handling container, goods conventional and bulk sand banks (with exclusion of the coal).
The project, that it includes the realization of a fluvial terminal and an industrial area of 37 hectares, previews an investment of 250 million dollars. The first phase of the new port will be realized in next the two years with an investment of 25 million dollars for the construction of harbour infrastructures. Initially the landing place will have an ability to traffic of the container pairs to about 200.000 teu, while the oil terminal will have an ability to 150.000 barrels to the day. The oil terminal of Puerto Bahía will be operated by the German group Oiltanking International.
The project represents the conversion to the harbour traffic of goods several, oil and bulk sand banks of a precedence project for the construction of a harbour terminal for the traffic of the coal. The new project is got ahead by the Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía S.A., the whose corporate name previously was Harbour Sociedad of Carare S.A and still first Harbour Sociedad Carbones of Carare S.A. The enterprise has as associates the society Proeléctrica electrical worker of Cartagena, the group Columbian-Canadian Pacific Rubiales Energy and the Columbian Pacific Infrastructure.
The project includes also the construction of a new oil pipe-line between Coveñas and Puerto Bahía, that it will enter at the beginning in function of 2013, with an ulterior investment of 200-250 million dollars and the realization of a gas pipeline for the connection with the extraction plant of natural gas to the Creciente (Sucre), for which will invest other 250 million dollars.
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The Columbian port of Cartagena will be equipped of a new harbour area realized to south of the Bay of Cartagena and called Puerto Bahía. It will be be a matter of a terminal of 475 meters of length and 55 meters of width that will be used it is for the oil exports that for handling container, goods conventional and bulk sand banks (with exclusion of the coal).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
