The Panama Ports Project

This is a short blurb I prepared on the selling points of our project. It is very slanted, but that is what they pay me to do.

The future pier will extend almost to the other shore line in the distance

Surface construction is complete in areas and the client has already made use of it. For perspective of the size look at the right hand side and you will see a white container box which is the size of a container carried on a rail car or semi-truck.

Since June 2006 the Louis Berger Group has provided consulting services to Panama Ports Company in Panama City. Using both Berger/ABAM and local office assets, LBG carried out the design and is in its second year of on-site construction management. LBG has been responsible for the oversight of all phases of the construction process including the dredged removal of over 3.1 million cubic meters of unsuitable materials, reclamation of over 2.8 million cubic meters of densified sand, and the preparation of the yard to receive containers with the full services of water, sanitation, and electricity for the berth cranes, reefer gantries, and the option to electrify all the RTGs in the yard. Two rivers have been diverted around the new container yard and loading berth, and a structure to link an existing berth to the newly reclaimed container yard.

By the scheduled completion of the project in 2011 over 100 acres of new useable yard space and an additional berth will be made available to Panama Ports providing capacity for more than 3-4 million Twenty (foot container box) Equivalent Units (TEU) annually which makes it one of the biggest ports on the western seaboard of the Americas. Once fully implemented, LBG’s design will provide greater port capacity in addition to optimizing traffic flow making it more efficient to travel between the port berths, the Panama Canal Railroad, container storage areas, and the surface road access points.