TCM breaks ground

Costa Rica’s environmental protection agency (SETENA) approved APM Terminals’ “Environmental and Social Impact Assessment” (EsIA), an initial 18-month study by dozens of foreign engineers and professionals producing over 2000 pages of documentation, and a few days later the National Concession Commission issued the “Construction Start Order” clearing the way for the new Container Terminal of Moin. The construction started on January 19th, 2015, operation inauguration is scheduled for early 2018.

In 2011 APM Terminals won the public bid and signed a 33-year concession contract with the Costa Rican government to finance, design, construct, operate and maintain the TCM, which is part of the Caribbean port authority JAPDEVA’s master plan to modernize the Limon /Moin port complex.

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