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The Port of Cartagena Group is the main logistics platform in the Caribbean. Thanks to its strategic location and its highly efficient maritime terminals, it has established itself as a key hub for the transshipment of cargo both regionally and globally. It currently connects with 750 ports in 150 countries around the world and serves 25 shipping lines. It is also Colombia's main export port, moving more than 60% of bilateral trade with the United States.
Competitive advantages
Its infrastructure and equipment, operated by the most efficient employees, allows the Port of Cartagena Group to be repeatedly ranked as the best port in the Caribbean. Its high international standards enable it to provide extremely efficient services.
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About the Port of Cartagena Group
- It offers port and logistics services to cargo and passenger vessels.
- It specializes in container handling. It currently has the capacity to move up to 5 million TEUs annually and is preparing to increase this to 6 million TEUs.
- Its maritime terminals, SPRC and Contecar, receive state-of-the-art vessels and are prepared for the arrival of the world's largest ships crossing through the recently expanded Panama Canal.
- It has the infrastructure to move Ro-Ro cargo and specializes in automobile cargo for the national and regional markets.
- It also handles project loads: heavy or oversized parts.
- As a logistics center, it adds value to the cargo industry and offers customized solutions for its customers, including warehousing, labeling, repacking, and others.
- It receives 98% of the cruise passengers arriving in the country.
Its position in the world
- It is the most efficient port in the Americas and surpasses some ports in Europe, ranking fifth in the most efficient ports in the world according to the World Bank and Standard & Poor's.
- The Port of Cartagena Group is in the list of Top 100 Container Ports.
- According to UNCTAD, it is the best connected port in Latin America and the Greater Caribbean.
- It is the fifth largest port in Latin America by volume of cargo moved, according to ECLAC.
- It aspires to become the continent's most important hubs for refrigerated cargo, containers, and Ro-Ro.
Its position in the country
- As the country's main exporting port, it is a tool that facilitates foreign trade thanks to its high competitiveness, thus promoting national development.
- Cartagena's port origins have made the organization a determining factor in local social, industrial, economic, and tourism development.
- On one hand, it provides more than 1,000 direct jobs. On the other hand, it is always looking for opportunities to build community through social responsibility programs, which are carried out through the Port of Cartagena Foundation.
- It is on the list of the best companies to work for in Colombia by the Great Place to Work® Institute.
- It has been operating since 1993 under a 40-year private management concession.
- As the country's main exporting port, it is a tool that facilitates foreign trade thanks to its high competitiveness, thus promoting national development.
- Cartagena's port origins have made the organization a determining factor in local social, industrial, economic, and tourism development.
- On one hand, it provides more than 1,000 direct jobs. On the other hand, it is always looking for opportunities to build community through social responsibility programs, which are carried out through the Port of Cartagena Foundation.
- It is on the list of the best companies to work for in Colombia by the Great Place to Work® Institute.
- It has been operating since 1993 under a 40-year private management concession.