Port Infrastructure in Colombia: Asymmetries between Buenaventura’s Port and Cartagena’s Port for the Year 2015

The economic dynamics of the 80s and 90s decade, with what has passed twenty-first century, have set new interests and trade relations, impacting, among other things, maritime trade routes. This research work aims to provide a diagnosis of infrastructural Buenaventura port status compared with the port of Cartagena, performing a thorough search of informative data, statistics, and reports; to define the asymmetries between the two ports. The results indicate a clear lack of state support and disorganization in the internal processes of management of the port of Buenaventura, which, ultimately, does not have sufficient capacity to receive and dispatch goods, which generates an increase in time and in operating costs in export and import processes. Buenaventura port infrastructure is below the level of the port of Cartagena.