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MARITIME AND PORT SERVICES IN LA ZED MARIEL
MARITIME AND PORT SERVICES IN LA ZED MARIEL
By
ZEDMariel Office
June 14, 2021
The Mariel Special Development Zone began the development of its infrastructures and the establishment of businesses in the areas surrounding the Port of Mariel, a deep-water port, where an investment process designed to optimize the maritime and port activities of that port is carried out. enclosure.
The Port of Mariel has several terminals, of companies with totally Cuban capital, which reinforce the logistics vocation and the projection of turning that port into a hub in the Central American and Caribbean area.
Two of the companies that operate port terminals are users of the ZED Mariel and contribute to consolidate its position as an attractive productive and service platform for investment by Cuban and foreign businesses.
The Mariel Container Terminal, which began its activities in January 2014, has the most modern equipment in the region and in its 7 years of existence it has accumulated significant achievements in its performance: in July 2014 it absorbed all container traffic previously operated in the Port of Havana, its crane operators quickly reached expertise in loading and unloading operations, modern equipment was incorporated that allows rail transportation of a growing volume of cargo, reducing the costs of these operations for the domestic economy; In 2018 it received the status of Authorized Economic Operator, which categorizes that company as a safe and reliable port operator in the task of supplying Cuban foreign trade and in October 2020, amid the complex epidemiological situation, it reached the figure of 2 million containers operated.
Mariel Port Services is another of the port operators that has been a user of the Mariel ZED since July 2019 and has vast experience of more than 30 years dedicated to the provision of port services and related activities. It has a human capital specialized in the provision of port services associated with the activity of foreign trade and cabotage, as well as equipment and facilities in its two port areas.