Colon Container Terminal
Colon Container Terminal (CCT) is part of the Evergreen Group and started operations in Panama since 1997. Back in 1994, the Group proposed to build a modern container terminal leveraging the geographical position of Panama, the benefits of the country’s connectivity and wide array of maritime and logistics services. In 1995, a master plan to develop a container terminal in Coco Solo North was submitted to the Panamanian Government, and the new terminal named CCT was built in the same place where a former US navy base was located.
Location
Colon Container Terminal is located in Coco Solo North, province of Colon. This seaport is becoming an ideal site for transshipment and cargo inbound/outbound to and from the Colon Free Zone. At the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal, CCT serves to the regional markets of the Caribbean, North, South and Central America with shipments mainly originated in the Far East.
This terminal has a total area of 74.33 hectares, an access channel of 16.4 meters draft and a turning basin of 600 meters in radius for vessel’s turnaround. The breakwater entrance has 200 meters wide allowing vessels into Manzanillo Bay.
This seaport has a road access to Colon Free Zone and to the railroad. Four container berths, eleven quay cranes and other yard equipment allow CCT a handling capacity of 2.4 million teus. The expansion plans include additional container storage areas near the actual port site and across Randolph Avenue as well as additional equipment for more efficient container handling operations.
General Description
CCT is mainly dedicated to receive and handle containers. More than 75% is pure transshipment cargo. The terminal is appropriately equipped to handle the current volumes of arriving cargo, an existing idle capacity allows potential customers to bring cargo to the seaport and benefit of its closeness to the railroad terminal, a short distance by road.
Representatives from Customs, Quarantine, AUPSA and Immigration have on-site offices.
Summary Table
| Services | |
|---|---|
| Containers | |
| General cargo | |
| Ro-Ro | |
| Bulk (dry) | |
| Bulk (liquid) | |
| Special projects | |
| Passengers | |
| Specifications | |
| Total area (hectare) | 74.33 |
| Berths | |
| Draft alongside | 14 - 16 |
| Total berths | 4 |
| Container berths | 4 |
| Container berths lengths (m) | 1258 |
| Yards | |
| Container storage area (hectare) | 27.8 |
| Container storage capacity (teus) | 45000 |
| Equipment | |
| Quay Cranes (Super Post Panamax) (up to 23 cnts) | 3 |
| Quay Cranes (Super Post Panamax) (up to 20 cnts) | 4 |
| Quay Cranes (Post Panamax) (up to 18 cnts) | 1 |
| Quay Cranes (Panamax) (up to 13 cnts) | 3 |
| Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (6 tiers + 1) | 30 |
| Reach Stackers | 3 |
| Empty handlers | 11 |
| Yard trucks | 98 |
| Chassis/Bombcarts | 93 |
| Forklift | 14 |
| Others | |
| Reefer plugs | 1032 |
| Gates | |
| Inbound lanes | 3 |
| Outbound lanes | 3 |
Note: Last update: December 2019
Statistics
In 2019, Colon Container Terminal decreased container movements reaching 784,252 TEUs with transshipment operations as 75.6% of total movements. In 2018, the port handled 816,373 TEUs with 78.9% as transshipment movements, while in 2017 the total throughput was 701,516 TEUs with transshipment operations as 75.9% of total movements.
Total TEUs Handled
Source: Panama Maritime Authority
Total TEUs Handled
Source: Panama Maritime Authority
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Contact
Colon Container Terminal
Randolph Road, Coco Solo North
P.O. Box 0301-03467
Colon, Republic of Panama
Phone: (507) 430-9500
Fax: (507) 430-9530
http://www.cct-pa.com