SOUTH AMERICA

Minister signals go ahead for new Chilean hub port

10 years ago

Chiles Foreign Minister used his Twitter account to confirm that construction will now go ahead of a new deep water port at San Antonio, in Valparaísos southern zone. The announcement co-incided with the opening of the new locks of the Panama Canal.

“With the expansion of the Canal, it is anticipated that a considerable increase in our port activity [will take place].

Against this backdrop, the government is driving forward the installation of a mega-port, the Large Scale Port in San Antonio, which will exponentially boost cargo handling capacity,” he said.

The new port will triple capacity of the existing ports at both Valparaíso and San Antonio, which between them handle 2.2 million containers annually.

The Minister also noted that the new port would include a series of supporting services, with a hub established in respect of the overall cool chain, which would help drive Chile’s agro-industrial exports.