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Escuintla city's economic base and nearby ZDEEPs

Dossier
Municipal intelligence for siting18-municipios.md
Domain
The country, department by departmentmunicipios
Room
Economy/economia
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Escuintla town is the departmental capital and has the country's second-largest GDP; its base is sugar agro-industry (the San Diego, Pantaleón/Concepción and Santa Ana mills), thermal power generation (San José and private complexes), chemicals and consumer goods (Procter & Gamble, La Colombina, Cervecería del Sur), foundry work and animal feed (secondary source). FUNDESA drew up a Territorial Economic Development Plan for the 'Escuintla Port Region' covering the sugar, banana, real-estate, manufacturing, tourism and logistics value chains. Nearby ZDEEPs: NUMA (km 65.7 of the CA-2), Puma 1 and Tecnopark (km 67.5), according to dossier 07. The reconstruction of the motorway to Puerto Quetzal will affect four municipalities in the department.

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economic profile from a secondary source

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  • Pantaleón/ConcepciónA sugar mill on the Escuintla corridor; part of the municipality's agro-industrial baseCompany case
  • Procter & GambleChemicals and consumer goods; a precedent for industrial siting in Escuintla townCompany case
  • La ColombinaChemicals and consumer goods; a precedent for industrial siting in Escuintla townCompany case
  • Cervecería del SurBeverages; a precedent for industrial siting in Escuintla townCompany case
  • Tecnopark256 ha with 100 completed Class A warehouses, 35 min from Puerto Quetzal and 1 h from the border with El Salvador.Industrial park
  • Puerto QuetzalThe southern corridor's sea outlet: the Pacific coast handles 60% of the country's port traffic; around 60 km from the capital by the Palín-Escuintla motorway and 4 km from Zona Libre QuetzalPort

and 2 more · Directory of organizations

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