APL Esplanade Becomes The Largest Vessel Ever To Arrive In Colombia
A brand-new occasion verifies Buenaventura as a critical port city for Colombia and also its international profession. Coming from Asia, the massive vessel, APL Esplanade, lately reached Puerto Aguadulce with a capability of 13,892 twenty-foot comparable devices (TEUs).
After Colombia, its trip remains to various other ports in South America.
With a size of 369 meters, comparable to about 4 specialist football areas and also a size of 51 meters, this vessel has the biggest physical measurements to call at any type of Colombian incurable.

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The occasion highlights the value, capability, and also competition of Buenaventura Port, situated near Colombia’s significant metropolitan locations such as Bogot á, Medell ín, and also Cali.
“The shipping companies continue to build larger and larger capacity vessels. For Puerto Aguadulce, receiving this type of vessel is an honor and a great responsibility. We work continuously under our vision of being a strategic ally of the Colombian economy. At the end of last year, we received what is now, after APL Esplanade, the second-largest capacity container vessel that has docked in the country. These calls confirm that Puerto Aguadulce is a terminal with global service standards, technology, infrastructure, and security,” claimed Miguel Abisambra, Puerto Aguadulce basic supervisor.
APL Esplanade cruises on the CMA CGM team’s Asia Central South America (ACSA1) solution, which web links East Asia with Central and alsoSouth America CMA CGM is a French delivery and also container transportation firm and also among the globe’s leading firms in container transportation, running greater than 200 sea paths in between 400 ports in 150 nations.
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