Marín deepens draught to cater for box beasts
The Spanish north-western port of Marín is to deepen its draught from 12 metres to 14 metres-15 metres in order to accommodate larger vessels. Currently, some large ships have to undertake very complicated manoeuvres at high tide in order to access the port.
The port anticipates that total throughput will reach 2.8m tonnes by 2010, with container growth being the main driver.
A total €4.5m ($6.1m) has been earmarked for annual investment from 2007 through to 2010.
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