Colón leads in container throughput for Latin America, Caribbean
Panama’s Colón port complex shifted 4.3m teu in 2018 representing 11% of the total 37.9m for the region’s top 20 gateways. Altogether, Latin America and the Caribbean’s top 10 ports saw throughput of 26.3m teu and the next 10 had a total of 11.6m teu
Brazil contributed the most to the region’s total volume of cargo with 10.4m teu, followed by Mexico, 6.98m teu; Panama, 6.87m teu; Colombia, 4.58m teu; and Chile, 4.27m teu