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Perishable air cargo via La Aurora and COMBEX-IM's limits

Dossier
Running an agro-export operation20-agro-exportar.md
Domain
Exporting agricultural produceagro-exportar
Room
Trade/comercio
Audited
not audited

COMBEX-IM is the cargo terminal at La Aurora: a private non-profit company run by the main business chambers, handling perishables, dry cargo and courier traffic. In 2017 it opened a climate-controlled area for export perishables, presented as the first of its kind in Central America (it removes mixed zones and maintains the cold chain). The physical constraint: it operates on the same footprint assigned some 30 years ago (~22,000 m²) and in 2020 estimated that it needed to grow by about 50% over 10 years (figures from El Economista, not re-verified because of a 403). Its perishables handling tariff is not public.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

COMBEX-IM footprintEl Economista (no re-verificado)
~22,000 m² (unchanged in ~30 years)2020 statement

Caveat

the 2020 figures were not re-verified

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