Effort and initiatives to keep Colombia’s Port of Cartagena on the cutting edge continue relentlessly with the commissioning of four additional ship-to-shore cranes at the Contecar terminal. They are expected to be operation in the summer of this year.

It now appears that construction of the new 300-metre Berth Six at the Bridgetown port will not be happening soon.

Having recently completed a massive expansion programme that effectively doubled container capacity at the end of 2015, Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) is confident with its overall capability to handle the demands of future growth.

The current fiscal year is proving to be just as hectic as the last in the port community of the Turks and Caicos Islands.Following a brutal hurricane season in 2017 and catastrophic physical destruction, the Ports Authority of the Turks and Caicos Islands signed contracts for capital projects to be implemented during the 2018/2019 fiscal year.

The port is a dynamic place to work and in every corner an accident awaits.