José Genet Barberena, Manager of Ports Coordination for the organization, said the first dock will be built as part of the Tri-National Accord of the Gulf of Fonseca, in the port of Potosí.
It will be 100 meters long and 2.2 meters wide, built on piles of reinforced concrete. The borders of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua converge on the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific coast.
He said the planning has started on the other three dock projects. They will be built according to local topography at Los Lirios, Puerto Morazán and El Rosario in the Cosigüina Peninsula. The technical committee is about to begin consultations with fishermen and others to determine the final design.
Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni
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August 2008
The Regional Port Company of Barranquilla will remove some 770 thousand meters of sediment in the next four months.
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June 2008
Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega, has inaugurated Port Salvador Allende on the shores of Lake Xolotlán.
The executive president of the National Port Enterprise, Virgilio Silva, said the construction of the port, together with other investments made last year, was done at a cost of six million dollars.
August 2008
The port project at Monkey Point, on the southern Caribbean coast and for which studies have already been completed, will have a global impact as it will have to capacity for 100 thousand ton ships to dock there.
A model from the National Port Company (EPN) indicates that the Monkey Point port, when completed, will include: storage for bulk cargo, cold-storage container terminal, liquid cargo terminal, cruise ship area, free zone, grain silos, railway, heliport and probably even an airport, to name a few. The port is expected to be one of the best in the region. The project is urgently needed by the business sector of the country, which has seen the export of their products grow more expensive at close to $1000 per container, since they have to transport their cargo to Puerto Cortes, in Honduras, and to Limon, in Costa Rica, in order to sell in Europe, the east coast of the United States and other markets.
January 2010
A new dock, measuring 1 kilometer long and 10 meters deep will allow cargo ships up to 15.000 tons.
This new dock, located in the city of Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas), will help the country increase commerce at its Atlantic coastline, reported Virgilio Silva, head of the National Ports Corporation.
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