News / Port of Cartagena bucks the regional trend with an eye on the future

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As Port of Cartagena Group celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, it has embarked on a period of diversification as it “responds to the new challenges of rapidly changing container supply chains”.

Twenty-five years ago it had a quay, originally constructed in 1934, that could handle around 200,000 teu annually, with a draught alongside of 10 metres and the largest vessel it could handle was 1,300 teu.

“We had no cranes, no systems and no one would trust us to handle their ...