Colombia
Edited by
Leonardo Chaves Rodriguez 2000006
Leonardo Chaves Rodriguez
SM S0006
Shipping Management
Calle 137 No 25 -54
Barrio Nuevo Country
Bogota´, Colombia, South America.
Tel: 57 1 6 76 37 20
Chavesleonardo@yahoo.com
In the following pages is presented in brief the national maritime structure and functions of national authorities and the main sea borne trade activities of the country.
Despite that maritime industry is not the strongest industry in Colombia, because the lack of a maritime tradition and national interest, shipping and port activities are in a continuos process of development.
Nowadays, port management activities, agency and services for international and national shipping are stronger than shipping management, thanks to the privatization of the port sector. In the other hand shipping have become a very weak industry, due to the high competition with foreign shipping lines and the lack of support from the government for the development of a modern and strong national fleet, therefore the national fleet is almost disappeared.
Other activities like shipbuilding, scraping, repair, modification and maintenance of ships is only presented for cabbotge and light tonnage.
This brief paper intends to present the simple and small structure of the Colombian maritime sector.
Maritime Structure
Colombian Ministry of Transport
Structure of the Maritime and Port Sector
Main Functions
・ Providing a secure and fluent international maritime transport of goods and passengers with a reliable, efficient economical and modern port system.
・ Adopt strategic functions for the design of new policies that promote the maritime transport of goods and passengers in co-ordination with Colombian port activities with the participation of the private and national sector.
Structure of the General Maritime Administration
Functions
・ Advice the Government in the adoption of Maritime programs and policies in order to regulate, control, promote and rule the development of the national merchant fleet, the marine science investigation and well use, exploitation and distribution of the sea resources.
・ Co-ordinated and control all the activities related with the safety navigation, maritime traffic control, installation and maintenance of navigation aids and perform research and studies in the hydrographic and cartographic field.
・ Authorize and control the acquisition, construction, repair, modification, maintenance, use, sale and scrap of the national merchant fleet and floating objects.
・ Regulated and control the activities related with the arrival, departure, manouvering, anchoring and tugging of national and foreign vessels arriving to the national ports and coastal waters.
1. Maritime transport
・ Marine transport trade
Main maritime export products by volume
| PRODUCTO/PRODUCT |
TONS |
％ OF TOTAL |
FOB(US$) |
AVERAGE TON VALUE |
| Petroleum. |
32,394,989 |
46.89％ |
3,843,144,445 |
0.0084 |
| Coal, Hulla, Coque. |
29,463,319 |
42.64％ |
833,751,447 |
0.0353 |
Manufactures
Minerals No-met. |
2,143,784 |
3.10％ |
156,291,188 |
0.0137 |
| Vegetables, fruits. |
2,044,074 |
2.96％ |
569,962,533 |
0.0036 |
| Sugar. |
1,118,508 |
1.62％ |
241,107,318 |
0.0046 |
| Coffee, Tea, Spices. |
594,004 |
0.86％ |
1,435,976,448 |
0.0004 |
Explosives,
Pyrotechnics. |
233,478 |
0.34％ |
152,404,862 |
0.0015 |
Manufactures: Iron
Steel. |
178,116 |
0.26％ |
205,164,180 |
0.0009 |
| Fix Oils. |
100,953 |
0.15％ |
47,027,166 |
0.0021 |
Inorganic Chemical
products. |
95,557 |
0.14％ |
25,993,588 |
0.0037 |
| Other. |
724,165 |
1.05％ |
1,306,788,542 |
0.0006 |
Total national marine
trade. |
69,090,948 |
100.00％ |
8,817,611,717 |
0.0078 |
・ Size of the national fleet
| Type of vessel |
Vessels
+300 Gt |
Gross
Tons |
DWT |
Average
Age |
Average
size |
| Dry Bulk |
8 |
79.907 |
148.017 |
28 |
9.988 |
| Other |
5 |
10.319 |
12.525 |
24 |
2.064 |
| Liquid Bulk |
1 |
1.155 |
2.043 |
29 |
1.155 |
| General Cargo |
2 |
998 |
1.969 |
36 |
499 |
・ Number of seafarers
Seafarers, 2000
| OFFICIALS |
% OF WORLD |
RATINGS |
% OF
WORLD |
TOTAL |
% OF
WORLD |
| 630 |
0.16% |
2,825 |
0.34% |
3,455 |
0.28% |
2. Ports
・ Amount of cargoes handled
Port Movements (Main ports)
| |
TEU |
|
Ton |
|
| |
1999 |
2000 |
1999 |
2000 |
| Santa Marta |
54.844 |
65.987 |
11'788.482 |
12'826.900 |
| Cartagena |
356.590 |
378.188 |
12'785.386 |
12'301.493 |
Buenaventura
|
275.765 |
250.299 |
6'621.378 |
6'969.065 |
| Barranquilla |
50.222 |
76.446 |
3'915.000 |
3'525.322 |
3. Name and addresses of Colleges, universities government and private institutes related to maritime affairs.
・ Ministry of Transport
Centro Administrativo Nacional, CAN, Av El Dorado.
Tel 57 1 224411
・ Universidad Externado De Colombia, "Program in International Maritime
Law", Calle 12 1 17 E, Tel 2826066
E-mail : e-finanzas@uexternado.edu.co
URL:
http://www.externado.edu.co・ Non vessel operator common carrier association "Asonav"
・ Shipowner association "Armacol"
