Manta, MANABI
2022 was the year that more vehicles entered through the port of Manta in the entire history of automotive access through the port of Manabita, this according to the statistics provided by the Manta Port Authority (APM).
Roberto Salazar, president of Terminal Portuario de Manta (TPM), concessionaire of the port of Manta, already anticipated last month that 2022 would close with the importation of more than 90,000 vehicles, the highest figure in the entire history of vehicle entry by this port.
Truck and van sales in 2022 reached 40% more than in 2019
According to APM statistics, the import and export mobilized by the international terminal operated the previous year by the TPM representative was 1,096,317 metric tons (more than one million metric tons), which are divided into the corresponding 95% for import and 5% for export.
That same report indicates that during the past year more than 106,515 transport units were mobilized, between vehicles and machinery, between import, export and transshipment, which meant an increase of 53% in relation to 2021, where 69,571 transport units entered. through the port of Manta.
Last year, 700 national and international flagged ships mobilized through the international docks controlled by the TPM, which meant an increase of 5% compared to 2021.
Import of cars was exceeded in the port of Manta in six months of 2022, after low income between 2020 and 2021
Another item of great activity report in Manta is related to the unloading of fishing. For Jéssika Guadamud, president of APM, the fishing terminal continues to represent work, economic growth and competitiveness.
“We are on the world’s maritime traffic radar, fishing vessels unload thousands of tons of fish through our port for further processing in companies or fishing plants, leaving the country with economic income from exports,” he said.
The fishing and cabotage terminal mobilized more than 72,000 metric tons of industrial fishing last year, unloaded from 268 fishing boats. While liquid bulk -vegetable oils- had an increase of 17%. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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