The above was reported during the 45th Cocatram meeting held at the Olof Palme Convention Center in this capital.
At the meeting, attended by delegations from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic and the host country, Executive President of the National Port Company of Nicaragua, Virgilio Silva, thanked the organization for its decision. Belonging to the Central American integration system.
The Nicaraguan government official noted that the region’s seaports represent a strategic link in the isthmus, affirming that they become an interface and economic engines in each country.
Silva suggested that the ports of Central America and the Dominican Republic should lead customer satisfaction measures, information sharing systems, training programs and continuous improvements.
He stressed the importance of modernizing port facilities to meet current and future demand and contribute to the socio-economic process of their respective countries.
In this sense, he added that ports enable commercial exchanges, are engines of economic growth, create jobs and promote tourism.
According to official sources, the Central American region has 47 port terminals that served more than 8,500 ships and handled 88.5 million tons of cargo in the second half of the year.
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