Geographical Scope

Geographical Scope
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The study included 49 port facilities of the
Mesoamerican countries: Belize (2), Colombia
(5), Costa Rica (3), El Salvador (3), Guatemala
(3), Honduras (6), México (8), Nicaragua (6,
Panamá (11) y Dominican Republic (2).
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The main participant ports were selected by
each country in the Workshop for the
Development Planning of the Components of the
Short Sea Shipping (cabotage), celebrated on
September 18 and 19 of 2008 in Panama; among
the participants were IDB, COCATRAM, SIECA,
Project Mesoamerica.
PANAMA Study Scope
!  This study focus on a cargo
transportation, based on the
volume movemenet of principal or
main products between countries
in Mesoamerica.
!  The analysis was exclusively for
container cargo, which is transfer
between different modes. But,
there are countries considering
moving also bulk cargo together
with boxes.
PANAMA Belice Countries and Ports studied Méxic
o Guate
mala Hond
Hai= Rep. Dominicana uras Panamá Colombia Belize City
798 millas
2.3 días
Puerto Barrios
824 millas
2.4 días
Santo Tomás de Castilla
824 millas
Tela
2.4 días
747 millas
2.2 días
La Ceiba
711 millas
2.1 días
San José
889 millas
2.5 días
Puerto Quetzal
889 millas
2.5 días
Acajutla
830 millas
2.3 días
Distances between
Panamá and other
countries
Corinto
681 millas
1.9 días
Puerto Sandino
656 millas
1.8 días
Puerto Limón
192 millas
0.6 días
CCT – MIT – SPA
Puerto Cristóbal
Puerto Balboa
SSS – Workshop in
Mesoamerican
Countries
PANAMA MSC OLIVER Workshop Groups
GROUP 1 – Owners of the cargo.: Conditions
and characteristics of the SSS services for the
intraregional cargo movement.
GROUP 2 – Shipping lines. Identify
governmental and institutional barriers of the
SSS service.
MSC OSCAR GROUP 3 – Ports. Necessary infrastructure and
conditions of port terminals for the SSS vessels
and cargo.
GROUP 4 – Road transportation. Expected
characteristics of the road transportation
involved in an intraregional SSS service.
GROUP 5 – Governnmen institutions. Actions
witch contribute with the implementation and
feasibility of the SSS service in the region.
PANAMA General Objetive
Revision and validation with the public and private sectors of the
ten countries of the Mesoamerican Project, a Route
Sheet for the implementation of the Short Sea Shipping in the region.
Specific Objetive
1.  To establish qualitative and quantitative advantages of the service
2.  Private sector should propose the main characteristics
that the SSS service should
1.  Barriers identification (government),
2.  Identify potential clients for the service.
3.  Identify fundamentals for the SSS service.
4.  Evaluate possible routes
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