Costa Rica

Bordering the Caribbean Sea on the Atlantic side of the country there stand the port installations of the Port of Limón and also those of Moín terminal. These installations have all the necessary equipment for the movement of general merchandise, the export of bananas, coffee and the new mode containers. It can also handle the transfer of crude petroleum which is pumped to the nearby national refinery.

There are three main ports on the Pacific ocean side; these are Puntarenas, Quepos and Golfito, the latter two of which were designed and equipped for banana export. At present Puntarenas is a docking port for ships coming from various parts of the world, be they commercial or private, and there is still a considerable amount of activity there in spite of the fact that the main activity has moved to the nearby port terminal of Caldera standing a few km to the south of Puntarenas.  All these ports are linked to the capital by land or by air and in the case of Limón and Puntarenas, also by rail. In the Gulf of Nicoya, in the west of the country facing the Pacific Ocean, there stands a port which has a very special features; this is the sugar port of Punta Morales which was designed and equipped exclusively for the export of cane sugar, an important mainstay of the national economy.