The shipping company Seatrade becomes the third company to open a gap in Cartagena to export goods to North America
The American market, one of the most important in the world, has become essential and a priority for businessmen in the Murcia Region. More and more people choose the United States to place their products and do business, but also more and more people choose the Port of Cartagena to send them to the US and Canadian coasts. So much so that there are already a hundred businesses that take their products from the Cartagena docks through the ships of three companies: Maersk Line, MSC/WEC Lines and Seatrade, which has been the last to join this group this very week.
The first of these, one of the most important in the world in terms of the movement of containerized goods, departs from Cartagena every seven days and the second every three, after calling at various Mediterranean ports in both cases.
The third is still in testing. A week and a half ago, it shipped 1,000 tons of frozen vegetables from the firm Fruveco, with two manufacturing centers (one in El Raal and the other in Alhama de Murcia), bound for the port of Savannah, in the eastern United States.
Wine, cheese and paprika
These lines are used by companies from a good number of municipalities. From Jumilla come wines, cheeses and agricultural products; from Murcia, olives, paprika and frozen vegetables; from Molina de Segura, preserves; and from Cartagena, among other products, state-of-the-art plastics from Sabic, bluefin tuna from Ricardo Fuentes, security doors and liquors from Zamora Company.
Resins, vegetables, caps and lids for bottles, fertilizers, preparations of soups, stews and broths, tea and coffee, ethyl alcohol, phosphates, machinery and equipment for agriculture also leave through the port of Cartagena. Also fruits for perfumery, anticorrosives and other additives prepared for mineral oils, as well as preparations for sauces.
There are forty open lines with America, the Far East and North Africa and Europe, mainly
In total, according to data provided by the Cartagena Port Authority, over the past year 32,000 tons were exported to the United States and Canada and this year, another 6,300 have already left in the first quarter.
Just as Fruveco did last week, another eighteen companies are dedicated to shipping frozen products. But not only to North America, but also to other destinations, such as Italy, China, Japan, France, the Netherlands, South Korea, Tunisia, the Czech Republic, Chile, Peru, Equatorial Guinea, Denmark and Saudi Arabia.
More and more companies in the Region of Murcia are choosing the port of Cartagena for its agility in operations, its strategic location and its competitive prices, as explained by the president of the Cartagena Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, to LA VERDAD. “A sample of our competitiveness is that regional companies use Cartagena’s docks to take their products to other continents,” she added.
forty lines
In total, the port authority has more than 40 open lines with, in addition to America, the Far East, South America, North Africa, North Europe and several Mediterranean countries, either as destinations or as origins.
Of note are the chemical products, mostly from the Sabic company, destined for the Far East, and the agri-food products, which are sent to countries in northern Europe. Among the latter, preserves, wines, beverages (mostly juices), fruits, vegetables and legumes, among other products, predominate.
From this terminal, the two shipping companies MSC and Maersk work to offer connections with all these ports in the world through the ‘feeder’ service, either with weekly connections via Valencia or through Algeciras, also with the same weekly frequency. Other companies that move goods are Sloman Neptun, to Northern Europe and the Baltic; Containerships, to Ireland; and Lauritzoncool, to Argentina and Uruguay.
Yolanda Muñoz: “We must become a logistics center that serves as a reference throughout the Mediterranean”
The port of Cartagena is currently opening up new markets and consolidating those in which it is at the forefront. According to the president of the Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, the main intention in 2022 is to become a first-class logistics center, “which serves as a reference in the Mediterranean and is the gateway not only to the Region, but also to Spain and Europe” He told THE TRUTH.
In his opinion, “Cartagena has much more potential and we are working to prove it.” “Right now we are promoting different types of traffic, such as frozen products, and occupying an interesting market niche, because we have companies in the Region of Murcia that are taking advantage of it to be more competitive and efficient in their sector,” he added.
The recovery and improvement of freight traffic in Cartagena is a reality. An example of this is that port traffic during the first quarter of this year grew by 15.78% compared to the same period of the previous year. This situation breaks the downward trend that the facilities had throughout last year, when the movement of goods fell by 5.11%. By type of traffic, the 25% rise in solid bulk stood out. Liquid bulk followed, especially oil.
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