From January to April 2014, container traffic at the Port of Limon/Moin reached 371,974 TEU – a 2% increase over the same period in 2013, therefore port authority expects 2014’s volumes to exceed 2013’s.
Construction of the new Moín Container Terminal (TCM), which will be operated by APM Terminals, is expected to get under way in the fourth quarter of this year. Geotechnical surveys and soil evaluations have been undertaken along with meteorological, wind and wave studies, and submitted to the respective government branch for review and approval.
In the first phase of this US$600m development, the TCM will have 650 m of berth and a 40 ha container yard. It will be equipped with six ship-to-shore cranes and twenty-three RTGs and will have around 3,000 reefer plug points, reflecting the fact that around 65% of the terminal’s exports are likely to be reefers transporting bananas, pineapples and melons to the US East Coast, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. The project further calls for the access channel and turning basin to be dredged to 16 m, and for a new breakwater to be constructed.