GUAYAQUIL:
Ecuador's most important port, towards
concession The seaport
of Guayaquil, a competitive port at your service.
VISION
To become the most efficient port in our region, with leadership
in security, technology and trade facilitation.
MISSION
To provide competitive port services, optimizing our resources,
protecting the ecosystem and supporting Ecuador’s modernization
and development.
TRADE CENTER
Guayaquil is the commercial heart of Ecuador, and offers a wealth
of business opportunities. The port handles 93% of container traffic
in/out the country and 62% if total import-export cargo, representing
453,000 TEU’s and 5.1 million tons respectively, positioning
it as the 13th largest port in Latin America and the Caribbean.
STRATEGIC LOCATION
Located in the west coast of South America, close to the most important
north-south shipping routes, the Port of Guayaquil is of great importance
for the logistics of main ocean carriers in the US, Europe, South
America and Far East trade lanes and offers a secure area for berthing.
ACCESS CHANNEL
Its fifty nautical miles into a mangrove surrounded path of ecological
importante and beauty, provides a shelter of calm water, properly
marked with sea buoys and markers along the route in the Morro channel,
taking an average of four hours to reach the piers area.
WINDS
An average of 3.2 m/s S.W wind makes a breezy transit in the channel,
with a maximum of 7.4 m/s in certain months of the year.
PORT FACILITIES
· Container Terminal with three berths of 185 m each and
290,879 square meters of paved area for containers.
· Multipurpose Terminal with five piers of 185 m each 85,234
square meters of warehouse for general cargo, including 4,086 square
meters for the refrigerated cargo and 5,408 square meters for dangerous
cargo.
· Bulk Terminal with one marginal pier of 155 m, three silos
for 8,900 cubic meters, belt conveyors, two warehouses of 900 metric
tons capacity each, one grain warehouse for 30,000 metric tons,
one vegoil tank of 240 cubic meters capacity and three of 9,800
cubic meters suitable for heavy liquids, i.e. molasses.
SERVICE ALL YEAR ROUND
The Port of Guayaquil works twenty-four hours a day and 364 days
in a year, stopping only for New Year’s eve.
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