SOUTH AMERICA

Latin ports must tackle infrastructure

15 years ago

Latin American countries need to look beyond increasingly large ports and consider logistics, Ricardo Sánchez, chief of the infrastructure services unit at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, said at a recent conference in Santiago.

Mr Sanchez’s warning was the second in as many days.

Transport undersecretary Gloria Hutt told the 2011 conference of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) improving transport logistics is one of the main challenges facing Chile.

“We have a very efficient internal industry and we have reasonably competitive and efficient ports. But we are missing the link that will help us make our logistics chains more efficient,” she said.