{"id":2963,"date":"2006-11-01T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2006\/11\/01\/colombian-ports-commit-120m-for-development\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:27:01","slug":"colombian-ports-commit-120m-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2006\/11\/01\/colombian-ports-commit-120m-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian ports commit $120m for development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buenaventura recently had to suspend the discharge of international cargo at its installations given the total saturation of its facilities, pressing the need for fast investment.<\/p>\n<p>This contrasts with the situation at Cartagena, Santa Marta and Barranquilla. At the latter, installations are operating at 70% of total capacity, which is a similar situation to both Cartagena and Santa Marta, respectively specialising in containers and general cargo.<\/p>\n<p>With Cartagena expecting throughput to rise by 25% in 2006,plans have been put forward to invest $50m in expanding facilities. Meanwhile, Santa Marta is registering growth of 15%, some of which has been generated by ships displaced from Buenaventura.<\/p>\n<p>Barranquilla and Santa Marta expect to invest $35m each in the next few years to cope with growing demand, although the funding is dependent on an extension being granted to their operating concession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development projects put forward by Colombias three leading Caribbean ports will absorb investment of $120m over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}