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Guayaquil Port Terminal will close 2021 with 545,000 containers moved, 21% more than in 2020

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For the third consecutive year, TPG is the port with the highest load volume.

growth was in the order of 20% in dollars and 8% in volume, compared to 2020. Until December, this segment managed to place $18,091 million in different destinations worldwide.Guayaquil Port Terminal (TPG)will close the year with545,000 containers(20 and 40 feet) mobilized, 95,000 more than in 2020 (+21.11%) and 43,000 (+8.57%) more than in 2019.

This was reported by the entity that argued that the main Ecuadorian products that were marketed, through the TPG, were bananas, shrimp, wood, canned fish, minerals and cocoa, which represent 75 % of exports.

The countries that received these goods were China, Chile, India, Japan, Argentina and the United States, among others.

As for imports, around 62 % of those entered by the Port Terminal of Guayaquil were chemicals, resins, paper and derivatives, electronic equipment, varied merchandise, metals and spare parts of vehicles.

"About 90 % of foreign trade is transported by sea in Ecuador (...), for the third consecutive year, in the port with the highest load volume," said the entity, which added that the high load rate that TPG has mobilized obeys investments for $ 174 million (invested in the last fifteen years), in equipment, infrastructure and technology.