The Spanish firm, Grup TCB, has been selected to operate the new TCQ terminal at Puerto Quetzal, located on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. The company will invest $250 million in new infrastructure.

The development of the new Puerto Quetzal Container Terminal will be implemented in two phases. In phase one, it will invest $120 million to build 300 metres of pier with a depth of 12.5 metres and yard area of 13 hectares. The second phase will involve the yard extension of up to 21 hectares and 540 metres of pier with a depth of 14 metres. The infrastructure will include four STS gantry cranes, a mobile harbour crane and twelve RTGs.

Headquartered in Barcelona, Grup TCB has been granted an extendable 25-year concession to operate TCQ. Quetzal is its fifth container terminal on the American continent, the second on the Pacific coast, after TCBuen in Buenaventura (Colombia).

Located in the municipality of San José, in the Guatemalan department of Escuintla, the Port of Quetzal started shipping activities in 1983.  According to the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the first half of 2012, the Port of Quetzal moved 150,799 TEUs.

The terminal will be equipped with four Ship-to-Shore (STS) gantry cranes, one mobile crane, and 12 Rubber-Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes.

Source: Grup TCB