{"id":8943,"date":"2013-10-15T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/10\/15\/apm-steams-ahead-with-costa-rica-terminal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:47:07","slug":"apm-steams-ahead-with-costa-rica-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/apm-steams-ahead-with-costa-rica-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"APM steams ahead with Costa Rica terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the reclamation agreement relies on approval from the SETENA, Costa Rica\u2019s environmental authority, of APMT\u2019s Environmental and Social Impact Assessment report, which is expected at the beginning of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.3m teu Mo\u00edn Container Terminal (TCM) is Costa Rica\u2019s largest infrastructure project. It will be built at the Puerto Lim\u00f3n\/Mo\u00edn complex, which handles 80% of Costa Rica\u2019s maritime commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to dredge the terminal to a depth of 18m to eventually accommodate 12,000 teu vessels transiting the widened Panama Canal upon its completion in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the choice of contractor, Tiemen Meester, vice president of business implementation, APMT, said: \u201cLand reclamation is a success story in The Netherlands and Van Oord and BAM delivered the new Rotterdam Maasvlakte II port facility, on time and on budget, on reclaimed land in the North Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APMT was awarded the concession for the terminal by the Costa Rica government back in March 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two years after winning the concession for a deepwater facility in Costa Rica, APM Terminals has signed an agreement with the Dutch consortium of Van Oord and Bam International to start dredging works for the new $460m terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}