Navegando hacia un sistema de cuarta generación en el puerto de Buenaventura

Abstract

The ports are focus of development of a country, the entry and exit to the world of commerce of a nation has as its epicenter this complex of infrastructure and movement, following this line of ideas, the port of Buenaventura in the Colombian Pacific, stands as a key enclave in the economic and social dynamics of the country. The present paper aims to highlight the advantages that the nation has in the possession of a port in the largest ocean in the world, with a privileged geostrategic position that makes possible the connection with many of the sea routes that link with several of the largest economies of the planet. Logistic management and the characteristics that make this anchorage a key point in the doctrine of fourth generation ports, keys to the fast and competitive international market economy are part of the writing. A framework of mobility, trucks, freighters, cranes, containers and hundreds of people involve a titanic logistics, which must be one hundred percent to achieve an effectiveness in the movement of tons of goods, products and raw materials that are trafficked in the world market. Not everything is harmony in this cluster of logistic gears, multiple failures that devastate the Port of Buenaventura, reducing effectiveness to its operation, obscuring its profile as the main port in the Colombian Pacific and subtracting revenue to so active potential of a nation. It is therefore the object of this work to show these fundamental points about how the port of Buenaventura works, its integration with the interior of the country in the framework of roads and other means of transport that facilitate the connection with the interior, the shortcomings that hit the environment port and modernization plans with a view to the competitiveness of the globalized and accelerated market to which Colombia wishes to enter with a port of the best qualities, as a beacon of development and prosperity.