Peruvian port of Chancay begins to bring Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador closer to China

(Agraria.pe) The port of Chancay, built in Peru by the Chinese state-owned shipping company Cosco to move one million containers per year with an investment of around 1.3 billion dollars, expects to finalize its first year of operations with the transfer of 350,000 containers. All this, while growing and consolidating as a logistics center for South America with Asia, where regional warehouses of e-commerce portals like Temu could be installed. This was commented on Tuesday by the deputy general manager of the port of Chancay, Gonzalo Ríos, during a tour for journalists through the port facilities, located about 80 kilometers north of Lima and its port of Callao, the largest in the country. Ríos explained that the start of operations of Chancay has allowed Cosco to establish a direct weekly route with China that takes 23 days outbound and 25 days return, which notably reduces the time and costs of exports and imports with Asia, both for Peru and neighboring countries such as ...