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terminalista group Spanish TCB will manage the new container terminal of the Guatemalan port of Quetzal
Previewed an investment of 250 million dollars
April 15, 2013
Terminalista group Spanish TCB will manage the new container terminal Terminal de Contenedores de Questzal (TCQ) of the Guatemalan port of Puerto Quetzal. The concession contract, that it has a duration 25-year-old (extended), previews that the Iberian group invests 250 million dollars in the new harbour infrastructure that is situated on the western coast of Guatemala.
With the first phase of the project they will be invested 120 million dollars in order to realize a part of the terminal that will occupy 13 hectares and will have 300 linear meters of dock with a depth of the -12,5 backdrop meters. The second phase previews the extension of the terminal to 21 hectares and the dock to 540 linear meters with depth of the backdrop to -14 meters.
The terminal will be equipped of four cranes ship-to-Shore, a mobile crane and twelve crane to portal on rubber.
Group TCB, than in Spain work container terminal in the ports of Barcelona (TCB), Gijón (TCG), Tenerife (CAPSA) and Valencia (TCV), in Central America and Latin America is present with the terminals Terminal de Contêineres de Paranaguá (TCP) in the Brazilian port of Paranaguá, Terminal de Contenedores de Habana (TCH) in the Cuban port de the Havana, Terminal de Contenedores de Yucatán (TCY) in the mexican port of Progreso and Terminal de Contenedores de Buenaventura (TCBuen) in the Columbian port of Buenaventura. Moreover in Turkey the Spanish group work the container terminal TCEEGE near Izmir.
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