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The Puerto San José international cargo airport

Dossier
Municipal intelligence for siting18-municipios.md
Domain
The country, department by departmentmunicipios
Room
Economy/economia
Audited
Audited

San José is the municipality of Puerto Quetzal (the main Pacific port) and of the Zona Libre Quetzal free zone (4 km from the port). The international cargo airport project accumulated six contracts worth almost Q700 million awarded under the Giammattei government, with more than Q400 million paid, according to Soy502 (27 April 2025); AGN reported progress on the runway, taxiway, terminal and control tower in 2022-2023. The physical state of the works and the current government's decision could not be extracted in the audit, and there is no later official confirmation of an opening or of operations - it is an open gap in the dossier.

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Figures

Contracts awarded, cargo airportSoy502 27-abr-2025
6 contracts worth almost Q700 M; >Q400 M paidto Apr 2025

Caveat

status of the works in 2025-2026 with no official confirmation

Sources

Organizations named in the answer

  • 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
  • Zona Libre QuetzalA free zone 4 km from Puerto Quetzal and 90 km from the capitalFree zone
  • Soy502News outlet; coverage of Hidro Santa Cruz's withdrawal from Guatemala (22 December 2016) and of the 2012 state of siege in Barillas.Other

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