A non-stop success story

Ever since privatisation in 1993, when the Colombian government opted to divest itself of its inefficient and troublesome Colpuertos network, there has only been one direction of travel for the nation’s three main Caribbean coast ports of Cartagena, Santa Marta and Barranquilla.

All three have been hugely successful, but one in particular stands out. That port is Cartagena – or, more correctly, Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena (SPRC), the company formed in the early 1990s by local investors to run the former state-owned harbor.

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